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SANITARY  CODE 


^OARD  OF  HEALTH 


DEPARTMENT    OF    HEALTH 


THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK 


1903 


New  York : 

PRESS  OF  THE  J.  W.  PRATT  (JO. 

52  TO  58  DuANE  Street 

1903 


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SANITARY    CODE. 

TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 

Page 

BARBER    SHOPS 76 

CATTLE,    HORSES,    ETC 29 

CEMETERIES 69 

CERTIFICATION    OF    SANITARY    CODE 78 

CORONERS 70 

CHARTER   PROVISIONS   AS   TO   CODE 80 

DEFINITIONS   AND   TERMS 1 

DISEASED,   INJURED  AND  DEAD  ANIMALS 49 

DISINFECTION    60 

DRUGS,    MEDICINES,    ADULTERATIONS   AND    POI- 
SONS     26  65- 

DWELLINGS,     LODGING     HOUSES      AND     OTHER 
BUILDINGS,        VENTILATION,         DRAINAGE 

AND    PLUMBING     8  16- 

FALSE   STATEMENTS    8 

FOOD   AND   DRINK    18  42- 

FO WLS    AND    SMALL    ANIMALS 31  78- 

INFECTIOUS    DISEASES     54  133- 

MARRIAGES,    BIRTHS    AND    DEATHS 64  158- 

MISFEASANCE   AND   NONFEASANCE 5 

NOISE     77 

OBEDIENCE      TO      ORDINANCES      AND      REGULA- 
TIONS         5 

OFFENSIVE    MATERIALS    40 

OFFENSIVE    TRADES     34 

PROOF   OF   SANITARY    CODE 79 

RAILROAD    CARS    • 73 

REMOVAL   OF    FILTH 48 

SEWERAGE   AND  DRAINAGE 13 

SLAUGHTERING   AND    SLAUGHTER-HOUSES 32 

STREET   DRAINAGE    17 

SPITTING     75 

TRANSPORTATION    OF    DEAD    BODIES 67 

VACCINATION,    ANTITOXIN    60 

VESSELS    AND    SEAMEN 61 

WATER     25 

[See  index  pp.  85-109.] 


THE   SANITARY   CODE. 


The  Sanitary  Code. 

The  Sanitary  Ordinances  adopted  by  tlie  Board  of  Healtii 
of  the  Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  called  the  Sanitary  Code,  and  conformed  to 
Chapter  XIX,  Title  1,  Chapter  378,  of  the  Laws  of 
1897,  and  Chapter  XIX,  Title  1,  Chapter  46G,  of  the 
Laws  of  1901,  pursuant  to  Section  1172  of  said 
Titles,  with  the  amendments  and  additional  pro- 
visions, added  and  published  to  July,  1903. 

Definitions  of  Terms. 
Section  i.  The  terms  "Board,"  "this  Board,"  and 
"said  Board"  whenever  used  in  this  Code  shall  be  held  to 
mean  the  "Board  of  Health  of  the  Department  of  Health 
of  the  City  of  New  York;"  the  word  "Department," 
whenever  used  herein,  shall  be  held  to  mean  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York;  the  words 
"person,"  "owner,"  "tenant,"  "lessee,"  "occupant,"  "con- 
tractor," "party,"  "manager,"  "board,"  and  "officer," 
shall  respectively  be  held  to  apply  to  and  include,  both 
jointly  and  severally,  each  and  all  owners,  part-owners, 
tenants,  lessees,  occupants,  contractors,  parties  in  in- 
terest, persons,  managers,  boards,  officers,  and  corpora- 
tions, who  may  sustain  the  relations,  or  may  be  in  like 
position  of  any  one  or  more  thereof  referred  to  in  any 


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ordinance  or  regulation;  every  word  or  phrase  anywhere 
herein  defined  shall  be  held  to  have  such  meaning  when- 
ever used  herein;  the  words  "city,"  or  "this  city/'  or 
"said  city,"  whenever  used  herein,  shall  be  held  to  mean 
the  City  of  New  York;  the  word  "regulations"  shall  be 
held  to  include  "special  regulations"  (which  latter  will  be 
from  time  to  time  issued,  and  will  contain  more  detailed 
provisions  than  can  be  herein  conveniently  set  forth  )  ;  the 
Avord  "permit"  shall  be  construed  to  mean  the  permis- 
sion in  writing  of  this  Board,  issued  according  to  its 
by-laws,  rules,  regulations,  and  h'anitary  Code;  and 
every  "report"  herein  required  shall  be  held  to  be  a 
report  in  writing,  signed  by  the  person  (and  indicating 
his  official  position)  who  makes  the  same;  the  word 
"light"  or  "lighted,"  shall  be  held  to  refer  to  natural, 
external  light;  and  all  words  and  plu-ases  herein  defined 
shall  also  include  their  usual  and  natural  meaning,  as 
well  as  those  herein  especially  given. 

Sec.  2.    The  word  "street,"  when  used  in  the   Sani 
tary  Code,  shall  be  held  to  include  avenues,  public  high 
ways,  sidewalks,  gutters,    and  public    alleys ;     and   the 
words   "public   place"   shall   be   held  to    include    parks, 
piers,     docks,     and    wharves,     and     water     and     open 
spaces     thereto     adjacent,     and     also     public     yards, 
grounds,    and.    areas,     and    all    .open     spaces     between 
buildings    and    streets,    and    in    view    of    such    streets;? 
the  word  "ashes"    shall    be    held    to    include    cinders,;5 
coal,     and     everything     that     usually     remains     after  j' 
fires;    the  word  "rubbish"   shall  be  held  to  include  all  ' 
the  loose  and  decayed  material  and  dirt-like  substance 
that  attends  use  or  decay,  or  which  accumulates  from 
building,    storing,    or    cleaning;     the    word    "garbage" 
shall  be  hold  to  include  swill  and  every  accumulation  of 


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both  animal  and  vegetable  matter,  liquid  or  otherwise, 
tha:t  attends  the  preparation,  decay,  and  dealing  in,  or 
storage  of  meats,  fish,  fowls,  birds,  or  vegetables;  and 
the  word  "dirf  sliall  be  held  to  mean  natural  soil,  earth, 
and  stone. 

Sec.  3.  A  "tenement-house"  shall  be  taken  to  mean 
and  include  every  house,  building,  or  portion  thereof, 
which  is  rented,  leased,  let  or  hired  out  to  be 
occupied,  or  is  occupied,  as  the  home,  or  residence 
of  three  families  or  more,  living  independently  of  each 
other,  and  doing  their  cooking  upon  the  premises, 
or  by  more  than  two  families  upon  any  floor,  so 
living  and  cooking,  but  having  a  common  right  in  the 
halls,  stairways,  yards,  water-closets,  or  privies,  or 
some  of  them.  A  "lodging-house"  shall  be  taken  to 
mean  and  include  any  house  or  building,  or  portion 
thereof,  in  which  persons  are  harbored  or  received,  or 
lodged  for  hire  for  a  single  night,  or  for  less  than  a 
week  at  one  time,  or  any  part  of  which  is  let  for  any 
person  to  sleep  in  for  any  term  less  than  a  week.  A 
"cellar"  shall  be  taken  to  mean  and  include  every 
basement  or  lower  story  of  any  building  or  house  of 
which  one -half  or  more  of  the  height  from  the  floor 
to  the  ceiling  is  below  the  level  of  the  street  adjoining. 
The  phrase  "boarding-house"  shall  be  held  to  include 
every  building,  and  every  story  and  portion  thereof, 
which  is  at  any  time  or  usually  used,  leased,  or  occu- 
pied, or  intended  so  to  be,  by  any  number  of  persons 
exceeding  ten,  as  boarders  thereat.  The  word  "manu- 
factory" shall  be  held  to  include  every  building,  and 
every  story  and  portion  thereof,  in  which  any  sort  of 
labor  or  work  is  done,  which  calls  for  the  continual  or 
usual  presence  of  several  persons  during  several  hours 


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of  the  day  or  aight,  engaged  about  said  work  or  labor; 
and  the  word  "saloon"  shall  be  held  to  include  every 
portion  of  any  building  in  which  the  business  of  sell- 
ing meals,  liquors,  drinks,  or  refreshments  of  any  kind, 
sliall  be  conducted,  and  includes  "concert  saloons." 

Sec.  4.  The  term  "theatre"  shall  be  held  to  include 
the  building,  rooms,  and  place  where  any  play,  concert, 
opera,  circus,  trick  or  jugglery  show,  gymnastic  or  other 
exhibition,  masquerade,  jjublic  dance,  drill,  lecture,  ad- 
dress, or  other  public  or  frequent  gathering  or  amuse- 
ment, are,  is,  or  may  be  held,  given,  performed,  or  take 
place,  and  the  approach  or  approaches  thereto,  and  ap- 
purtenances thereof. 

Sec.  5.  The  word  "physician"  shall  include  every 
person  who  practices  about  the  cure  of  the  sick  or  in- 
jured, or  who  has  the  charge  of,  or  professionally  pre- 
scribes for,  any  person  sick,  injured,  or  diseased,  and  any 
person  who  pursues  the  business  of  or  acts  as  midwife; 
and  the  phrase  "infectious  disease"  shall  be  held  to  in- 
clude all  diseases  of  an  infectious,  contagious,  or  pesti- 
lential nature. 


Sec.  6.  The  word  "meat"  whenever  herein  used, 
includes  every  part  of  any  land  animal  and  eggs  (whether 
mixed  or  not  with  any  other  substance);  and  the  word 
"fish"  includes  every  part  of  any  animal  that  lives  in 
water,  or  the  flesh  of  which  is  not  meat;  and  the  word 
"vegetable"  includes  every  article  of  human  consump- 
tion as  food,  which  (not  being  meat,  or  fish,  or  milk)  is 
held,  or  offered,  or  intended  for  sale  or  consumption  as 
food  for  human  beings,  at  any  place  in  said  city;  and  all 


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fish  and  meat  found  therein  shall  bo  deeinod  to  be  therein 
and  held  for  such  sale  or  consumption  as  such  food,  un- 
less the  contrary  be  distinctly  proved. 

Sec.  7.  The  word  "cattle"  shall  be  held  to  include  all 
animals,  except  birds,  fowl,  and  fish,  of  which  any  part 
of  the  body  is  used  as  food;  the  word  "butcher"  shall 
be  held  to  include  whoever  is  engaged  in  the  business 
of  keeping,  driving,  or  slaughtering  any  cattle,  or  in 
selling  any  meat;  the  words  "private  market"  shall  in- 
clude every  store,  cellar,  stand,  and  place  (not  being  a 
part  of  a  public  market)  at  which  the  business  is  the 
buying,  selling,  or  keeping  for  sale,  of  meat,  fish,  or  vege- 
tables for  human  food. 

Misfeasance  and  Nonfeasance. 

Sec.  8.  No  person  shall  carelessly  or  negligently 
do  or  devise  or  contribute  to  the  doing  of  any  act  or 
thing  dangerous  to  the  life,  or  detrimental  to  the  health 
of  any  human  being;  nor  shall  any  person  knowingly  do 
or  advise  or  contribute  to  the  doing  of  any  such  act  or 
thing  (not  actually  authorized  by  law),  except  with 
justifiable  motives,  and  for  adequate  reasons;  nor  shall 
any  person  omit  to  do  any  act,  or  to  take  any  precaution, 
reasonable  and  proper,  to  prevent  or  remove  danger  or 
detriment  to  the  life  or  health  of  any  human  being. 

Obedience  to  Ordinances  and  Regulations. 

Sec.  9.  Every  contractor  in  these  ordinances  referred 
to,  and  every  person  who  has  contracted  or  undertakes, 
or  is  bound  to  do,  or  is  engaged  in  doing  any  one  of  the 
things,  in  respect  of  which  these  ordinances  contain 
provisions  or  regulations,  shall  comply  with  these  ordi- 


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nances,  to  the  extent  that  any  contract,  obligation,  or 
duty  requires  or  permits;  and  no  direction  of  any  con- 
tractors or  persons  shall  excuse  him  for  a  non-compli- 
ance with  any  of  said  ordinances. 

Sec.  10.  It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  duty  of  every 
owner  and  part  owner  and  person  interested,  and  of 
every  lessee,  tenant,  and  occupant  of  or  in  any  place, 
water,  ground,  room,  stall,  apartment,  building,  erection, 
vessel,  vehicle,  matter,  and  thing  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  and  of  every  person  conducting  or  interested  in 
business  therein  or  thereat^  and  of  every  person  who  has 
undertaken  to  clean  any  place,  ground  or  street  therein, 
and  of  every  person,  public  of3&cer  and  department  having 
charge  of  any  ground,  place,  building  or  erection  therein, 
to  keep,  place  and  preserve  the  same  and  the 
sewerage,  drainage  and  ventilation  thereof  in  such 
condition,  and  to  conduct  the  same  in  such  man- 
ner, that  it  shall  not  be  a  nuisance  or  be  dangerous  or 
prejudicial  to  life  or  health.  The  term  "building"  as 
used  in  this  section,  includes  a  railway  car,  booth,  tent, 
shop  or  other  erection  or  enclosure. 

Sec.  11.  Evej-y  person  shall  observe  and  obey  each 
and  every  special  regulation  and  every  order  of  this 
Board,  that  is  or  may  be  made,  for  carrying  into  effect 
any  of  the  ordinances  or  powers  hereinbefore  or  herein- 
after contained,  or  any  law  of  this  State  or  otherwise, 
whether  issued  directly  by  the  Board,  or  promulgated 
by  any  Bureau  charged  therewith,  as  if  the  same  had 
been  herein  inserted  at  length. 

Sec.  12.  Xo  person  shall  omit  or  refuse  to  comply 
with,  or  resist  any  of   the   provisions   of   the   Sanitary 


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Code,  or  any  of  the  rules,  orders,  sanitary  regulations, 
or  ordinances  established  or  declared  by  this  Board  under 
or  pursuant  to  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  seventy- 
fourth  chapter  of  the  Laws  of  18G0j  or  of  chapter  six 
hundred  and  eighty -six  of  the  Laws  of  186Gj  or  of 
chapter  nine  hundred  and  fifty-six  of  the  Laws  of  1867; 
or  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  of  the  Laws 
of  1873;  or  of  chapter  seven  hundred  and  fifty-seven  of 
the  Laws  of  1873;  or  of  chapter  six  hundred  and  thirty- 
six  of  the  Laws  of  1874;  or  of  chapter  three  hundred  and 
seventy-eight  of  the  Laws  of  1897;  or  of  chapter  four 
hundred  and  sixty-six  of  the  Laws  of  1901;  nor  shall 
any  person  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply  with  any  of  the 
provisions  of  the  said  laws  in  so  far  as  the  same  are  now 
in  force  and  applicable  to  the  City  of  New^  York;  or  omit 
or  refuse  or  neglect  the  execution  of  any  order  or  special 
regulation  of  this  Department;  no  person  shall  interfere 
with  or  obstruct  any  Inspector  of  this  Department  when 
making  the  inspections  or  examinations  ordered  by  this 
Board,  or  when  executing  its  orders. 

Sec.  13.  The  owner,  lessee,  tenant,  and  occupant  of 
any  building  or  premises,  or  of  any  part  thereof,  where 
there  shall  be  a  nuisance^  or  a  violation  of  any  ordinance 
or  section  of  the  Sanitary  Code,  shall  be  jointly  and  sev- 
erally liable  therefor,  and  each  of  them  may  be  required 
to  abate  the  nuisance,  or  comply  with  the  order  of  the 
Board  of  Health  in  respect  to  the  premises,  or  the  part 
tliereof,  of  which  such  person  is  owner,  lessee,  tenant  or 
occupant. 

Sec.  14.  Whenever  a  nuisance  in  any  place  or 
upon  any  premises  in  the  City  of  New  York  shall  have 
been  found  or  declared  by  resolution  of  the  Board  of 


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Health  to  exist,  and  an  order  shall  have  been  made  di- 
recting the  owner,  lessee,  tenant  or  occupant  of  such 
premises  to  make  suitable  and  necessary  repairs  or  im- 
provements, or  to  abate  the  said  nuisance,  such  repairs 
or  improvements  shall  be  made,  and  such  nuisance  shall 
be  fully  abated  within  the  time  specified  in  and  by 
said  order. 

False  Statements. 

Sec.  15.  No  person  shall  make  any  false  or  untruthful 
statement  in  any  application  for  a  permit  from  the 
Board  of  Health. 

Dwellings,  Lodging-Houses  and  Other  Buildings,  Ventila- 
tion, Drainage  and  Plumbing. 

Sec.  16.  Xo  person  shall  hereafter  erect,  or  cause 
to  be  erected,  or  converted  to  a  new  purpose  by  altera- 
tion, any  building  or  structure,  or  change  the  construc- 
tion of  any  part  of  any  building  by  addition  or  other- 
wise, so  that  it,  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be  inadequate 
or  defective  in  respect  to  strength,  ventilation,  light, 
sewerage,  or  any  other  usual,  proper,  or  necessary 
provision  or  precaution  for  the  security  of  life  and 
health;  and  no  person  shall  make  or  use  a  smoke  house 
or  room,  or  apparatus  for  smoking  meat,  without  a  per- 
mit from  the  Board  of  Health,  and  subject  to  the  condi- 
tions thereof;  nor  shall  the  builder,  owner,  lessee,  tenant 
or  occupant  of  any  such,  or  of  any  other  building  or 
structure,  cause  or  allow  any  matter  or  thing  to  be  or  to 
be  done  in  or  about  any  such  building  or  structure 
dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health. 

Sec.  17.     No  owner  or  lessee  of  any  building,  or  any 
part     thereof,     shall     lease     or    let    or     hire     out     or 


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allow  the  same  or  any  portion  ilicrcdf  to  bo  occu- 
pied by  any  person,  or  allow  any  (tnc  l(j  clwcl!  m- 
lodge  therein,  except  when  said  building  or  sucli 
parts  thereof  are  sufficiently  lighted,  ventilated,  pro- 
vided and  accommodated,  and  are  in  all  respects  in 
that  condition  of  cleanliness  and  wholesomeness  for 
which  this  Code  or  any  law  of  this  State  provides,  or  in 
which  they  or  either  of  them  require  any  such  premises 
to  be  kept.  Nor  shall  any  such  person  rent,  let,  hire  out, 
or  allow,  having  power  to  prevent  the  same,  to  be  used 
as  or  for  a  place  of  sleeping  or  residence,  any  portion  or 
apartment  of  any  building,  which  apartment  or  portion 
has  not  at  least  two  feet  of  its  height  and  space  above 
the  level  of  every  part  of  the  sidewalk  and  curbstone  of 
any  adjacent  street,  nor  of  wdiicli  the  floor  is  damp  by 
reason  of  water  from  the  ground,  or  which  is  impreg- 
nated or  penetrated  by  any  offensive  gas,  smell,  or  ex- 
halation prejudicial  to  health.  But  this  section  shall  not 
prevent  the  leasing,  "renting,  or  occupancy  of  cellars  or 
rooms  less  elevated  than  aforesaid,  and  as  a  part  of  any 
building  rented  or  let,  when  they  are  not  let  or  intended 
to  be  occupied  or  used  by  any  person  as  a  sleeping  apart- 
ment, or  as  a  principal  or  sole  dwelling  apartment. 

Sec.  18.  Xo  person  having  the  right  and  power  to 
prevent  the  same  shall  knowingly  cause  or  permit  any 
person  to  sleep  or  remain  in  any  cellar,  or  in  any  bath- 
room, or  in  any  room  where  there  is  a  water-closet,  or  in 
any  place  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health,  by 
reason  of  a  want  of  ventilation  or  drainage,  or  by  reason 
of  the  presence  of  any  poisonous,  noxious,  or  offensive 
odors  or  substance,  or  otherwise. 


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Sec.  19.  No  owner,  lessee,  or  keeper  of  any  tene- 
ment-house, lodging-house,  boarding-house,  or  manufac- 
tory, sliall  cause  or  allow  the  same  to  be  overcrowded 
or  cause  or  allow  so  great  a  "number  of  persons  to  dwell, 
be,  or  sleep  in  any  such  house,  or  any  portion  thereof, 
as  thereby  to  cause  any  danger  or  detriment  to  life  or 
health. 

Sec.  20.  Every  person  who  shall  be  the  owner,  lessee, 
or  keeper  or  manager  of  any  tenement-house,  board- 
ing-house, lodging-house,  or  manufactory,  shall  provide, 
or  cause  to  be  provided,  for  the  accommodation  thereof 
and  for  the  use  of  the  tenants,  lodgers,  boarders,  and 
workers  thereat,  adequate  privies,  or  water-closets,  and 
the  same  shall  be  adequately  ventilated,  and  shall  at 
all  times  be  kept  in  such  cleanly  and  wholesome  condi- 
tion, as  not  to  be  offensive,  or  be  dangerous  or  detri- 
mental to  life  or  health.  And  no  offensive  smell  or  gases, 
from  or  through  any  outlet  or  sewer,  or  through  any 
such  privy  or  water-closet,  shall  be  allowed  by  any 
person  aforesaid  to  pass  into  such  house  or  any  part 
thereof,  or  into  any  other  house  or  building. 

Sec.  21.  For  all  lodging-houses  in  the  City  of  New 
York  containing  rooms  in  which  there  are  more  than 
three  beds  for  the  use  of  lodgers  or  in  which  more  than 
>>i.\'  persons  are  allowed  to  sleep,  a  permit  from  the 
Board  of  Health  shall  be  required,  and  no  person  shall 
have,  lease,  let  or  keep  any  such  lodging-house  or  the 
lodgings  therein,  or  assist  in  the  keeping,  hire,  or  assist 
in  hiring,  or  conduct  the  business  of  any  such  lodging- 
house,  or  the  lodgings  therein,  except  pursuant  to  the 
terms  and  conditions  of  such  permit.  The  beds  in  all 
lodging-houses  and  in  every  room  in  which  beds  are  let 


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for  lodgers  shall  he  separated  by  a  passageway  of  not 
less  than  two  feet,  horizontally,  and  all  the  beds  shall 
be  so  arranged  that  under  each  of  them  the  air  shall 
freely  circulate  and  there  shall  be  adequate  ventilation. 
Four  hundred  cubic  feet  of  air  space  shall  be  provided 
and  allowed  for  each  bed  or  lodger. 

Sec.  22.  Every  owner,  lessee,  tenant  and  manager 
of  any  boarding-house  or  manufactory,  shall  cause 
every  part  thereof  and  its  appurtenances  to  be  put,  and 
shall  thereafter  cause  the  same  to  be  kept,  in  a  cleanly 
and  whol^oome  condition,  and  shall  cause  every 
room  thereof  in  which  any  p?rson  may  sleep,  dwell, 
or  work,  to  be  adequately  lighted  and  ventilated;  and, 
if  the  same  be  a  manufactory,  shall  cause  every  part 
thereof  in  which  any  person  may  work,  to  be  maintained 
at  such  temperature,  and  be  provided  with  such  accom- 
modations and  safeguards,  as  not,  by  reason  of  the  want 
thereof,  or  of  anything  about  the  condition  of  such  man- 
ufactory or  its  appurtenances,  to  cause  any  unnecessary 
danger  or  detriment  to  the  life  or  health  of  any  person 
being  properly  therein  or  thereat. 

See.  23.  All  filthy  and  dirty  walls  and  ceilings  of  any 
building,  including  the  walls  and  ceiling  of  the  cellar 
thereof,,  shall  be  thoroughly  cleaned  and  whitewashed 
whenever  required  by  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  24.  The  roofs  and  skylights  of  all  buildings  shall 
be  kept  in  a  condition  of  good  repair  so  that  rain  water 
shall  not  enter  the  building. 

See.  25.  No  master  or  teacher,  or  manager  of  or 
in  any  school,  public  or  private,  or  of  or  in  any  Sunday- 


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school  or  gymnasium,  or  the  officers  or  managers  thereof, 
or  officers  or  managers  or  persons  having  charge  of  any 
place  of  public  worship,  shall  so  far  omit  or  neglect  any 
duty  or  reasonable  care  or  precaution  respecting  the 
safety  or  health  of  any  scholar,  pupil,  or  attendant,  or 
respecting  the  temperature,  ventilation,  or  cleanliness  or 
strength  of  any  church,  hall  of  worship,  school-house, 
school-room,  or  place  of  practice  or  exercise,  or  relative 
to  anything  appurtenant  thereto,  as  that  by  reason  of 
such  neglect  or  omission,  the  life  or  health  of  any  person 
shall  suffer  or  incur  any  avoidable  peril  or  detriment, 
and  no  day  nursery  shall  be  conducted  in  the  City  of 
New  York  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  26.  Every  keeper  or  proprietor  of  a  hotel  or 
boarding-house,  and  every  other  person  having  for  use  a 
bathing-house  upon  any  beach  or  shore  of  the  ocean,  for 
tlie  accommodation  of  his  guests  or  other  perscms  for 
pay,  shall  provide  for  the  safety  of  such  bathers  two  lines 
of  sound,  serviceable  and  strong  manila  or  hemp  rope, 
not  less  than  one  inch  in  diameter,  anchored  at  some 
point  above  high  water,  at  the  same  distance  apart  as 
the  line  of  bathing-houses,  or  space  fronting  on  such 
beach  occupied  by  him  is  in  width;  and  from  the  two 
points  at  which  such  life  lines  are  so  anchored^,  such  line 
shall  be  made  to  extend  as  far  into  the  surf  as  bathing  is 
ordinarily  safe  and  free  from  danger  of  drowning  to  per- 
sons not  expert  in  ST^imming,  and  at  such  points  of 
safety  such  lines  shall  be  anchored  and  buoyed.  From 
the  two  points  of  such  lines  so  extended,  anchored  and 
buoyed,  a  third  line  shall  be  extended,  connecting  the 
two  extremities,  and  buoyed  at  such  points  as  to  be 
principally  above  the  surface  of  the  water,  thereby  in- 
closing  a  space  within  such  lines  and  the  beach  within 
which  bathing  is  believed  to  be  safe.    Every  such  keeper 


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or  proprietor  or  otlior  sucli  person  sliall  cause  to  be 
painted  and  put  up  in  some  prominent  place  upon  the 
beach,  near  such  bathing-houses,  the  following  words: 
"Bathing  beyond  the  lines  dangerous."  Such  lines  so 
placed,  anchored  and  buoj^ed,  and  such  notice  so  put  up, 
shall  continue  and  be  so  maintained  by  every  such 
keeper,  proprietor  or  other  person  during  the  entire 
season  of  surf  bathing.  The  owner  of  a  bathing-house 
shall  not  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  section 
where  it  is  used,  occupied  or  maintained  by  a  lessee  for 
hire,  but  such  lessee  shall  be  deemed  the  keeper  or 
proprietor  thereof.  No  bathing  establishment  shall  be 
maintained  in  the  City  of  New  York  or  along  the  water 
front  of  said  city  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health. 

Sewerage  and  Drainage. 

Sec.  27.  Every  person  using,  making,  or  having  any 
drain,  soil-pipe,  passage  or  connection  between  any 
sewer  (or  with  any  river  or  other  body  of  water)  and  any 
ground,  building,  erection,  or  place  of  business,  and  in 
like  manner  every  owner  or  tenant  of  any  gi'ounds, 
buildings  or  erections,  and  every  person  interested  in 
such  place  of  business  or  the  business  thereat,  and  in 
like  manner  every  board,  department,  officer,  and  person 
(to  the  extent  of  the  right  and  authority  of  each),  shall 
cause  and  require  such  drain,  soil-pipe,  passage  and  con- 
nection to  be  at  all  times  adequate  for  its  purpose,  and 
to  convey  and  allow,  freely  and  entirely,  to  pass  w'hat- 
ever  enters  or  should  enter  the  same;  and  no  change 
shall  be  made  of  the  drainage,  sewerage,  or  the  sewer 
connection  of  any  house  or  premises,  involving  changes 
in  the  drainage,  sewerage,  or  sewer  connection  of  any 
other  house  or  premises,  unless  at  least  30  days  notice 


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thereof  in  writing  shall  have  been  previously  given  to 
this  Department,  and  to  the  owner  or  occupant  of  the 
premises  affected  by  such  change. 

Sec.  28.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  boards,  depart- 
ments, officers,  and  persons  having  power  and  authority 
so  to  do  or  require  (and  to  the  extent  thereof)  to  cause 
sufficient  water  to  be  used,  and  other  adequate  means 
to  be  taken,  so  that  w-hatever  substances  may  enter  any 
sewer  shall  pass  speedily  along  and  from  the  same,  and 
sufficiently,  far  into  some  water  or  proper  reservoir,  that 
no  accmnulations  shall  take  place,  and  no  exhalations 
proceed  therefrom,  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or 
health. 

Sec.  29.  Xo  brick,  sheet  metal,  or  earthenware  ma- 
terial or  chimney  flue  shall  be  used  as  a  sewer  venti- 
lator, or  to  ventilate  any  trap,  drain,  soil  or  waste  pipe. 

Sec.  30.  The  soil,  waste  and  vent  pipes  in  an  exten- 
sion to  any  building  must  be  extended  above  the  roof  of 
the  main  building  if  within  thirty  feet  of  the  front  or 
rear  window^s  of  the  main  building  or  of  an  adjoining 
building,  or  if  so  located  as  to  cause  a  nuisance. 

Sec.  31.  All  joints  in  iron  drain  pipes,  soil  and  waste 
pipes,  must  be  filled  with  oakum  and  lead  and  hand 
caulked  so  as  to  make  them  gas-tight.  All  connections  of 
lead  with  iron  pipes  must  be  made  with  a  brass  sleeve 
or  ferrule  of  the  same  size  as  the  lead  pipe,  put  in  the 
hub  of  the  branch  of  the  iron  pipe,  and  caulked'  with 
lead.  The  lead  pipe  must  be  attached  to  the  ferrule  by 
a  Aviped  or  overcast  joint.  All  connections  of  lead  waste 
and  vent  pipes  shall  be  made  by  means  of  wiped  joints. 


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Sec.  32.  All  house  drains,  waste,  soil  and  vent  pipes, 
traps,  and  water  pipes  in  any  building  and  prem- 
ises shall  at  all  times  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 
so  that  no  gases  or  odors  shall  escape  therefrom  and  so 
that  the  same  shall  not  leak. 

Sec.  33.  Every  water-closet,  urinal,  sink,  basin, 
wash-tray,  bath  and  every  tub  or  set  of  tubs  and  hydrant 
waste  pipe  must  be  separately  and  effectively  trapped; 
except  where  a  sink  and  wash  tubs  immediately  adjoin 
each  other,  in  which  case  the  waste  pipe  from  the  tuba 
may  be  connected  with  the  inlet  side  of  the  sink  trap. 
Traps  must  be  placed  as  near  the  fixtures  as  practicable, 
and  in  no  case  shall  a  trap  be  more  than  two  feet  from 
the  fixture.  In  no  case  shall  the  waste  from  a  bath 
tub  or  other  fixture  be  connected  with  a  water-closet 
trap.  No  trap  vent  pipe  shall  be  used  as  a  waste  or  soil 
pipe. 

Sec.  34.  No  drain  pipe  from  a  refrigerator  shall  be 
connected  with  the  soil  or  waste  pipe,  but  it  shall  dis- 
charge into  a  properly  trapped,  sewer-connected,  water- 
supplied,  open  sink.  No  overflow  pipe  from  a  tank  shall 
discharge  into  any  soil  or  waste  pipe,  or  water-closet 
trap  or  into  the  drain  or  sewer,  but  it  may  discharge 
upon  the  roof  or  into  an  open  water- supplied  tank. 

Sec.  35.  Rain  water  leaders  shall  be  sound,  tight  and 
adequate  for  their  purpose  and  shall  not  be  used  as  soil, 
waste  or  vent  pipes,  or  be  connected  therewith;  nor 
shall  any  soil,  waste  or  vent  pipe  be  used  as  a  leader. 
When  within  the  house,  the  leader  must  be  of  cast  iron, 
with  leaded  joints;  ^vhen  outside  of  the  house  and  con- 
nected with  the  house  drain  it  must  be  trapped  bencatli 


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the  ground  or  just  inside  of  the  wall,  the  trap  being 
arranged  in  either  case  so  as  to  prevent  freezing.  In 
every  case  where  a  leader  opens  near  a  window  or  a 
lightshaft,  it  must  be  properly  trapped  at  its  base.  The 
joint  between  a  cast  iron  leader  and  the  roof  must  be 
made  gas  and  water  tight  by  means  of  a  brass  ferrule 
and  lead  or  copper  pipe  properly  connected. 

See.  30.  The  waste  or  soil  pipe  in  every  lodging- 
house,  or  other  dwelling  in  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  be  ventilated  by  extending  the  same  by  means 
of  a  pipe  of  the  same  size  to  the  height  of  not  less  than 
two  feet  above  the  roof  of  the  building. 

Sec.  37.  No  privy  vault,  or  cesspool,  shall  be  allowed 
to  remain  on  any  premises,  or  shall  be  built  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  unless  when  unavoidable.  The  sides  and 
bottom  of  every  privy  vault,  cesspool,  or  school-sink  in 
the  City  of  New  York  must  be  impermeable,  and  secure 
against  any  saturation  of  the  walls  or  the  ground  above 
the  same.  No  water-closet  or  privy  shall  be  constructed 
without  adequate  provision  for  the  effectual  and  proper 
ventilation  and  cleansing  thereof. 

Sec.  38.  No  person,  persons,  company  or  corporation 
shall  cause,  permit  or  allow  any  sewage,  drainage,  fac- 
tory refuse  or  any  foul  or  offensive  liquid  or  other  ma- 
terial to  flow,  leak,  escape  or  be  emptied  or  discharged 
into  the  waters  of  any  river,  stream,  canal,  harbor,  bay 
or  estuary,  or  into  the  sea  within  the  city  limits,  ex- 
cepting under  low-water  mark,  and  in  such  manner  and 
under  such  conditions  that  no  nuisance  can  or  shall  be 
caused  thereby  or  as  a  result  thereof. 


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Street  Drainage. 

Sec.  39.  Ever}'  person,  Avlien  cleaning  any  street,  shall 
clean,  and  every  contractor  shall  cause  to  be  cleaned, 
the  gutters  and  parts  of  the  street  along  which  the  water 
will  run,  before  using  any  water  to  wash  the  same;  and 
no  substance  that  could  be  before  scraped  away  shall  be 
washed  or  allowed  to  be  carried  or  be  put  into  the  sewer, 
or  into  any  receptacle  therewith  connected. 

Sec.  40.  No  person  being  owner,  lessee,  tenant  or 
occupant  of  any  building  or  premises,  shall  allow  any 
water  or  other  liquid  to  run  from  or  out  of  such  build- 
ing or  premises  upon  or  across  any  sidewalk  or  curb- 
stone, and  if  such  substance  is  allowed  to  pass  into 
any  street,  it  must  reach  the  same  by  a  passage,  to  be 
kept  at  all  times  adequate  and  in  repair,  under  or 
through  such  flag-stone  or  curb-stone;  and  no  water  or 
other  liquid,  or  ice  therefrom,  shall  be  allowed  to  gather 
or  remain  on  the  upper  surface  of  such  curb,  fiag-stone, 
or  passage;  nor  shall  such  person  allow  any  accumula- 
tion of  such  water  or  liquid,  or  the  ice  therefrom,  upon 
any  street  or  place,  but  shall  at  all  times  cause  the  same 
to  be  removed  or  to  pass  along  the  gutter  or  some  proper 
passage  to  one  of  the  rivers  or  into  a  sewer. 

Sec.  41.  Every  owner,  tenant,  lessee  and  occupant 
of  any  building  or  lot  (whether  vacant  or  occupied) 
Avithin  or  near  the  built-up  portions  of  said  city,  shall 
keep  and  cause  to  be  kept  the  sidewalk  and  flagging,  and 
ciirb-stone  in  front  thereof,  free  from  obstructions  and 
nuisances  of  every  kind,  and  shall  not  allow  anything  in 
the  area  or  yard  or  on  or  about  his  premises  to  become  a 
nuisance,  or  dangerous  or  prejudicial   to  life  or  health. 


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Food  and  Drink. 

Sec.  42.  No  meat,  fisli,  birds,  fowl,  fruit,  vegetables, 
or  milk  not  being  then  healthy,  fresh,  sound,  wholesome, 
and  safe  for  human  food,  nor  any  meat  or  fish  that  died 
by  disease  or  accident,  shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of 
New  York,  or  offered  or  held  for  sale  as  such  food 
anywhere  in  said  city,  nor  shall  any  such  articles  be  kept 
or  stored  therein. 


Sec.  43.  No  calf,  or  the  meat  thereof,  shall  be  brought 
into  the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  sold  or  offered  for 
sale  for  human  food,  which,  when  killed,  was  less  than 
four  weeks  old,  or  when  killed  and  dressed  weighs  less 
than  forty-five  (45)  pounds.  No  pig,  or  the  meat  thereof, 
shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  sold, 
or  offered  for  sale  for  human  food,  which,  when  killed, 
was  less  than  five  weeks  old.  No  lamb,  or  the  meat 
thereof,  shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  or 
held,  sold  or  offered  for  sale  for  human  food,  which, 
when  killed,  was  less  than  eight  weeks  old.  Nor  shall 
any  meagre,  sickly,  or  unwholesome  fish,  birds  or  fowl 
be  brought  into  said  city  or  held,  sold  or  offered  for  sale 
for  human  food. 


Sec.  44.  No  cattle  shall  be  killed  for  human  food 
while  in  an  overheated,  feverish,  or  diseased  condition; 
and  ajl  such  diseased  cattle,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
and  the  place  where  found,  and  their  disease,  shall  be  at 
once  reported  to  this  Department  by  the  owner  or 
custodian  thereof,  that  the  proper  order  may  be  made 
relative  thereto,  or  for  the  removal  thereof  from  said 
city. 


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Sec.  45.  The  body  of  any  animal  or  any  part  thereof, 
which  is  to  be  used  as  human  food,  shall  not  be  carted 
or  carried  through  the  streets  or  avenues,  unless  it  l)e 
so  covered  as  to  protect  it  from  dust  and  dirt;  and  no 
meat,  poultry,  game  or  fish  shall  be  hung  or  exposed 
for  sale  in  any  street  or  outside  of  any  shop  or  store, 
or  in  the  open  windows  or  doorways  thereof,  in  the  City 
of  New  York.  No  meat  or  dead  animal  above  the  size 
of  a  rabbit  shall  be  taken  to  any  public  or  private  market 
to  be  sold  for  human  food  until  the  same  shall  have  been 
fully  cooled  after  killing,  nor  until  the  entrails,  head  and 
feet  (except  of  poultry  and  game,  and  except  the  heads 
and  feet  of  swine)  shall  have  been  removed. 

Sec.  46.  No  breadstuffs,  cake,  pastry,  dried  or 
preserved  fruits,  candies  or  confectionery  shall  be  kept, 
sold  or  offered  for  sale  outside  of  a  building  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  or  in  any  street  or  public  place,  unless 
the}^  be  kept  properly  covered  so  that  they  shall  be  pro- 
tected from  dust  and  dirt. 

Sec.  47.  No  person,  being  the  manager  or  keeper  of 
any  saloon,  boarding-house  or  lodging-house,  or  being 
employed  as  a  clerk,  servant,  or  agent  thereat,  shall 
therein  or  thereat,  offer  or  have,  for  food  or  drink,  or  to 
be  eaten  or  drunk,  any  poisonous,  deleterious,  or  un- 
wholesome substance,  nor  allow  anything  therein  to  be 
done  or  to  occur,  dangerous  to  life  or  prejudicial  to 
health. 

Sec.  48.  No  meat,  fish,  fruit,  vegetables  or  milk,  or 
unwholesome  liquid  shall  knowingly  be  bought,  sold, 
held,  offered  "  for  sale,  labeled,  or  any  representation 
made  in  respect  thereof,  under  a  false  name  or  quality, 


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or  as  being  what  the  same  is  not,  as  respects  wholesome- 
ness,  soundness,  or  safety  for  food  or  drink. 

Sec.  49.  Every  person,  being  the  owner,  lessee,  or 
occupant  of  any  room,  stall  or  place  where  any  meat, 
fish,  fruit  or  vegetables,  designed  or  held  for  human 
food,  shall  be  stored  or  kept,  or  shall  be  held  or  offered 
for  sale,  shall  put  and  keep  such  room,  stall  and  place, 
and  its  appurtenances,  in  a  cleanly  and  w^holesome  con- 
dition: and  every  person  having  charge,  or  interested  or 
engaged,  whether  as  principal  or  agent,  in  the  care  or 
in  respect  to  the  custody  or  sale  of  any  meat,  fish,  fruit, 
birds,  fowl  or  vegetables,  designed  for  human  food,  shall 
put  and  preserve  the  same  in  a  cleanly  and  wholesome 
condition,  and  shall  not  allow  the  same,  or  any  part 
therrof,  to  be  poisoned,  infected,  or  rendered  unsafe  or 
unwholesome  for  human  food. 

Sec.  50.  Xo  butcher  or  dealer  shall  keep  in  any 
market  any  refrigerator  or  ice-box,  unless  the  same  shall 
1)6  lined  with  some  proper  metallic  substance,  so  as  to 
be  water-tight. 

See.  51.  In  the  sale,  or  keeping  for  sale,  of  any  bev- 
erage or  drink,  no  person  shall  keep  or  use  any  tap, 
faucet,  tank,  fountain  or  vessel,  or  any  pipe  or  conduit 
in  connection  therewith,  which  shall  be  composed  or 
made,  either  w^holly  or  in  part,  of  brass,  lead,  copper,  or 
other  metal  or  metallic  substances  that  are  or  will  be 
afi'ected  by  liquids  so  that  dangerous,  unwholesome  or 
deleterious  compounds  are  formed  therein  or  thereby, 
or  such  that  beer,  soda  water,  syrups  or  other  liquids, 
or  any  beverage,  drink  or  flavoring  material  drawn  there- 
from shall  be  unwholesome,  dangerous  or  detrimental  to 
lirnlth. 


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Sec.  52.  No  person  shall  havo  at  any  plar-e  wlicrc 
milk,  butter  or  cheese  is  kept  for  sale,  nor  shall  at 
any  place  sell,  deliver,  or  ofler,  or  have  for  sale,  or 
keep  for  use,  nor  shall  any  person  bring  or  send  to  said 
citj'  any  unwholesome,  skimmed,  watered  or  adulterated 
miJk,  or  milk  known  as  "swill-milk,"  or  milk  from 
cows  or  other  animals  that  for  the  most  part  have  been 
kept  in  stables  or  that  have  been  fed  in  whole  or  in  part 
on  swill,  or  milk  from  sick  or  diseased  cows  or  other 
animals,  or  any  butter  or  cheese  made  from  any  si.ch 
milk,   or   any  unwholesome  butter  or  cheese. 

Sec.  53.  Xo  milk  which  is  watered,  adulterated, 
reduced  or  changed  in  any  respect  by  the  addition 
of  water  or  other  substance,  or  by  the  removal  of  cream, 
shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  kept, 
sold  or  offered  for  sale  at  any  place  in  said  city:  nor 
shall  any  one  keep,-  have,  sell  or  ofTer  for  sale  in  th.e  said 
city  any  such  milk. 

The  term  "adulterated  milk,"  when  so  used  in  this 
code  means : 

First — Milk  containing  more  than  eighty-eight  per 
centum  of  water  or  fluids. 

Second— Milk  containing  less  than  twelve  per  centum 
of  milk  solids. 

Third — Milk  containing  less  than  three  per  centum  of 
fats. 

Fourth — Milk  drawn  from  animals  within  fifteen  days 
before  or  five  days  after  parturition. 


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Fifth — Milk  dra^vn  from  animals  fed  on  distillery 
waste,  or  any  substance  in  a  state  of  fermentation  or 
putrefaction,  or  on  any  unwholesome  food. 

Sixth — Milk  drawn  from  cows  kept,  in  a  crowded  or 
unhealthy  condition. 

Seventh — ^IMilk  from  which  any  part  of  the  cream  has 
been  removed. 

Eighth — Milk  which  has  been  diluted  wdth  water  or 
any  other  fluid,  or  to  w^hich  has  been  added,  or  into 
which  has  been  introduced,  any  foreign  substance  what- 
ever. 

Ninth — ^jMilk  the  temperature  of  which  is  higher  than 
50  degrees  Fahrenheit. 

Sec.  54.  Any  milk  found  to  be  adulterated,  either  by 
the  addition  of  water  or  other  substance,  or  by  the  re- 
moval of  cream,  which  has  been  brought  into  the  City 
of  Xew  York  or  is  held  or  offered  for  sale  in  said  city, 
may  be  seized  and  destroyed  by  any  inspector,  or  other 
officer  of  this  Department  authorized  to  inspect  milk. 

Sec.  55.  Xo  condensed  milk  which  is  adulterated  shall 
be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  kept, 
sold  or  offered  for  sale  at  any  place  in  said  city,  nor 
shall  any  one  have,  keep,  sell  or  offer  for  sale  in  said 
city  any  such  condensed  milk.  TTie  words  "condensed 
milk"  mean  pure  milk  from  which  any  part  of  the  water 
has  been  removed,  or  pure  milk  from  which  any  part  of 
the  water  has  been  removed  and  to  which  sugars  have 
been  added.  The  term  "adulterated,"  when  used  in  this 
section,  refers  to  condensed  milk  in  w-hieh  the  amount  of 
fat  is  less  than  twenty- five  per  cent,  of  the  milk  solids 


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contained  therein,  or  to  which  any  foreign  substance 
whatever  has  been  added,  excepting  sugars,  as  in  pre- 
served milks. 

Sec.  56.  No  milk  shall  be  received,  held,  kept,  offered 
for  sale  or  delivered  in  the  City  of  New  York  without 
a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health  and  snl)jcct  to  tlic 
conditions  thereof. 

Sec.  57.  No  cream  which  is  adulterated  shall  be 
brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  kept,  sold  or 
offered  for  sale  in  said  city,  nor  shall  any  one  keep,  have, 
sell  or  offer  for  sale  in  said  city  any  such  cream.  The  term 
'cream"  means  the  fatty  portions  of  pure  milk  which 
rise  to  the  surface  when  the  milk  is  left  at  rest,  or  which 
are  separated  by  other  means.  The  term  "adulterated," 
when  used  in  this  section,  refers  to  cream  to  which  any 
foreign  substance  whatever  has  been  added. 

Sec.  58.  Upon  any  cattle,  milk,  meat,  birds,  fowl, 
fish  or  vegetables  being  found  by  any  inspector  or  other 
officer  of  this  Department  in  a  condition  which  ren- 
ders them,  in  his  opinion,  unwholesome  and  unfit  for  use 
as  human  food,  or  in  a  condition  or  of  a  weight  or  quality 
in  this,  code  condemned  or  forbidden,  he  is  empowered, 
authorized  and  directed  to  immediately  condemn  the 
same  and  cause  it  to  be  removed  to  the  offal  or  garbage 
dock  for  destruction,  and  report  his  action  to  the  De- 
partment without  delay. 

And  the  owner  or  person  in  charge  thereof,  when 
so  divectnd  by  the  said  inspector  "or  by  an  order  of 
the  Sanitary  Superintendent,  or  an  Assistant  Sanitary 
Superintendent,  shall  remove,  or  cause  the  same  to  be 
removed,  to  the  place  designated  by  the  said  inspectors 


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or  the  order  of  said  Sanitary  Superintendent  or  As- 
sistant Sanitary  Superintendent,  or  to  the  offal  dock, 
and  shall  not  sell,  or  offer  to  sell,  or  dispose  of  the  same 
for  human  food.  And  when,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Sani- 
tary Superintendent,  or  an  Assistant  Sanitary  Superin- 
tendent, any  such  meat,  fish,  fruits,  or  vegetables  shall 
be  unfit  for  human  food,  or  any  such  animal,  cattle, 
sheep,  swine,  or  fowls,  by  reason  of  disease,  or  exposure 
to  contagious  disease,  shall  be  unfit  for  human  food,  and 
improper  or  unfit  to  remain  near  other  animals  or  to  be 
kept  alive,  the  Board  of  Health  may  direct  the  same  to 
be  destroyed,- as  dangerous  to  life  and  health,  and  may 
order  any  such  animals,  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  or  fowls,  to 
be  removed  by  any  inspector,  police  officer,  officer  or 
agent  of  this  Department,  to  be  killed,  and  taken  to  the 
offal  dock. 

Sec.  59.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  manufacturer, 
importer  or  other  person  who  manufactures  or  imports, 
in  the  City  of  New  York,  any  artificial  or  natural  min- 
eral, spring  or  other  water  for  drinking  purposes,  to  file, 
under  oath,  with  the  Department  of  Health,  the  name  of 
such  water  and  the  exact  location  from  which  it  is  ob- 
tained, together  with  the  chemical  and  bacteriological 
analysis  thereof,  and,  when  manufactured,  the  exact 
formula  used  in  its  production,  giving  qualitatively  and 
quantitatively  each  and  every  item  entering  into  its 
composition.  No  person  shall  manufacture  or  bottle  min- 
eral, carbonated  or  table  waters,  in  the  City  of  New  York 
without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  60.  Every  butcher  or  milk  dealer,  and  their 
agents,  shall  allow  the  parties  authorized  by  this  Depart- 
ment to  freely  and  fully  inspect  the  cattle,  meats,  fish, 


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vegetables  and  milk  held  or  kept  by  them,  or  intended 
for  sale,  and  will  be  expected  to  answer  all  reasonable 
and  proper  questions  asked  by  such  persons  relative  to 
the  condition  thereof,  and  of  the  places  where  such  arti- 
cles may  be. 

-  Water. 
Sec.  61.  No  person  shall  throw  or  allow  to  run 
or  pass  into  any  public  reservoir,  water-pipe  or  aqueduct, 
or  into  or  upon  any  border  or  margin  thereof,  or  excava- 
tion or  stream  therewith  connected,  any  animal,  vege- 
table, or  mineral  substance  whatever;  nor  shall  any  per- 
son (having  power  or  right  to  prevent  the  same)  do  or 
permit  any  act  or  thing  that  will  impair  or  peril  the 
purity  or  Avholesomeness  of  any  water  or  other  fluid  used 
or  designed  as  a  drink,  in  any  part  of  said  city;  nor  shall 
any  person  bathe  nor  (except  in  the  discharge  of  a 
public  duty)  put  any  part  of  his  person  into  such  water; 
nor  shall  any  unauthorized  person  open  any  erection  or 
unscrew  any  hydrant  holding  such  water. 

Sec.  62.  It  sli.all  be  the  duty  of  every  person,  officer, 
department,  and  board,  having  any  authority  and  con- 
trol in  regard  to  any  Avater  designed  for  human  con- 
sumption (and  within  the  proper  sphere  of  the  duty  of 
each  thereof),  to  take  all  usual  and  also  all  reasonable 
measures  and  precautions  to  secure  and  preserve  the 
purity  and  wholesomeness  of  such  water. 

Sec.  63.  Water  from  wells  in  the  Borough  of  Man- 
hattan shall  not  be  used  for  drink;  nor  shall  such  water 
be  used  for  any  purpose  in  any  tenement  or  lodging- 
house,  hotel,  manufactory  or  buildings  in  which  persons 
are  living  or  employed,  or  in  which  there  are  offices,  or  a 


26  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

restaurant  or  saloon,  without  a  permit  from  the  Board 
of  Health.  Water  from  wells  in  the  other  Boroughs  of 
said  city,  other  than  the  public  water  supply,  shall  not 
be  used  in  any  tenement  or  lodging-house,  hotel,  manu- 
factory or  buildings  in  which  persons  are  living  or  em- 
ployed, or  in  which  there  are  offices  or  a  restaurant  or 
saloon,  without  a  permit  from  the  .Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  04.  No  person  shall  destroy  or  in  anywise  injure 
or  impair  any  drinking  hydrant,  or  part  thereof,  in  the 
said  city;  nor  shall  any  person  interfere  with  the  use 
or  enjoyment  of  the  water  therein,  or  therefrom,  or  in- 
terrupt the  flow  thereof,  nor  shall  any  person  put  any 
dirty,  poisonous,  medicinal,  or  noxious  substance  into 
or  near  said  water  or  hydrant,  whereby  such  water  is 
made  or  may  be  regarded  as  dangerous  or  unwholesome 
as  a  drink. 

Drugs,  Medicines,  Adulterations  and  Poisons. 

Sec.  65.  Xo  person  shall  make,  prepare,  put  up,  ad- 
minister or  dispense  any  prescription,  decoction,  or  medi- 
cine imder  any  deceptive  or  fraudulent  name,  direction  or 
pretence;  nor  shall  any  ingredient  be  substituted  for 
another  in  any  prescription;  nor  shall  any  false  or  de- 
ceptive representation  be  made  by  any  person  to  any 
other,  as  to  the  kind,  quality,  purpose,  or  effect  of  any 
such  drug,  medicine,  decoction,  drink,  or  other  article 
offered  or  intended  to  be  taken  as  food  or  medicine. 

Sec.  60.  No  poison  shall  be  sold  at  retail  by  any  per- 
son in  the  City  of  New  York  without  having  affixed  to  the 
bottle,  box,  parcel  or  receptacle  containing  such  poison, 
a  label  bearing  the  word  "Poison"  distinctly  shown, 
printed  or  wi'itten  in  red  ink,  together  with  the  name  and 


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place  of  business  of  the  seller  and  the  name  of  the 
poison  printed  or  written  upon  such  bottle,  box,  parcel 
or  receptacle  in  plain  legible  characters. 

Sec.  67.  No  person  shall  have,  sell  or  offer  for  sale  in 
tlie  City  of  New  York  any  food  which  is  adulterated. 
The  term  food,  as  herein  used,  shall  include  every  article 
of  food  and  every  beverage  used  by  man,  and  all  con- 
fectionery. Food,  as  herein  defined,  shall  be  deemed 
adulterated: 

(a).  If  any  substance  or  substances  has  or  have  been 
mixed  with  it  so  as  to  reduce  or  lower  or  injuriously  af- 
fect its  quality  or  strength. 

(b).  If  any  inferior  or  cheaper  substance  or  sub- 
stances have  been  substituted  wholly  or  in  part  for  the 
article. 

(c).  If  any  valuable  constituent  of  the  article  has 
been  wholly  or  in  part  abstracted. 

(d).  If  it  be  an  imitation  or  bo  sold  under  the  name 
of  another  article. 

(e).  If  it  consists  wholly  or  in  part  of  diseased  or  de- 
composed or  putrid  or  rotten  animal  or  vegetable  sub- 
stance whether  manufactured  or  not,  or  in  the  case  of 
milk,  if  it  is  the  produce  of  a  diseased  animal. 

(f).  If  it  be  colored,  or  eontcd  or  poIi^]lcd,  or  pow- 
dered, whereby  damage  is  concealed,  or  it  is  made  to  ap- 
pear better  than  it  really  is,  or  of  greater  value. 

(g).  If  it  contains  any  added  poisonous  ingredient, 
or  any  ingredient  which  may  render  such  article  injurious 
to  the  health  of  the  person  consuming  it;  or  if  it  con- 


28  THE    SANITAEY    CODE. 

tains  any  antiseptic  or  preservative  not  evident  and  not 
known  to  the  purchaser  or  consumer. 

An  article  of  food  which  does  not  contain  any  ingredi- 
ent injurious  to  health,  shall  not  be  deemed  adulterated, 
in  the  case  of  mixtures  or  compounds  which  may  be  now, 
or  from  time  to  time,  known  as  articles  of  food  under 
their  own  distinctive  names,  or  which  shall  be  labeled  so 
as  to  plainly  indicate  that  they  are  mixtures,  combina- 
tions, compounds  or  blends. 

Spirituous,,  fermented  and  malt  liquors  shall  be 
deemed  adulterated  if  they  contain  any  substance  or  in- 
gredient not  normal  or  healthful  to  exist  in  spirituous, 
fermented  or  malt  liquors,  or  which  may  be  deleterious 
or  detrimental  to  health  when  such  liquors  are  used  as 
a  beverage. 

Confectionery  shall  be  deemed  adulterated  if  it  con- 
tains terra  alba,  barytes,  talc  or  other  mineral  sub- 
stance or  poisonous  colors  or  flavors,  or  other  ingredients 
deleterious  or  detrimental  to  health. 

8cc.  G8.  Xo  person  shall  manufacture,  produce,  com- 
pound, brew,  distill,  have,  sell  or  offer  for  sale  in  the 
City  of  Xev/  York  any  drug  which  is  adulterated.  The 
term  drug,  as  herein  used,  shall  include  all  medicines 
for  external  or  internal  use,  or  both.  Drugs,  as  herein 
defined,  shall  be  deemed  adulterated: 

(a).  If,  when  sold  by  or  under  a  name  recognized 
in  the  United  States  pharmacopeia,  it  differs  from  the 
standard  of  strength,  quality  or  purity  laid  down  therein. 

(b).  If,  when  sold  by  or  under  a  name  not  recognized 
in  the  United  States  pharmacopeia,  but  which  is  found 
in  some  other  pharmacopeia,  or  other  standard  work  on 
materia  medica,  it  differs  materially  from  the  standard 
of  strength,  quality  or  purity  laid  down  in  such  work. 


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(c).     If  its  strength  or  purity  fall  below  the  professed 
standard  under  which  it  is  sold. 


Cattle,  Horses,  Etc. 

Sec.  69.  No  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  horse,  goat,  goose,  oi 
mule,  or  any  dangerous  or  offensive  animal,  shall  be 
allowed  by  any  owner,  or  by  any  person  having  charge  of 
the  same,  to  go  at  large  in  any  street  or  public  place  in 
the  City  of  New  York. 

No  pigs,  swine  or  cattle  sliall  be  unloaded  from  any 
cars  upon  any  street  or  public  place  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  except  pursuant  to  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health. 

No  cattle,  pigs,  swine  or  slieep  shall  be  driven  to 
any  slaughter-house  in  the  Borough  of  Brooklyn,  except 
between  the  hours  of  eight  of  the  evening  and  one  hour 
after  sunrise  of  the  next  morning;  nor  shall  more  than 
twenty  cattle,  or  more  than  one  hundred  pigs  or  swine, 
or  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  sheep,  be  driven 
together;  and  they  shall  be  driven  in  streets  and  avenues 
(leading  toward  their  destination)  where  they  will  least 
endanger  the  lives  of  human  beings,  as  the  Department 
of  Health  may  designate,  provided,  that  when  the  land- 
ing or  transportation  of  cattle  shall  have  been  delayed 
or  prevented  by  ice,  fog  or  unavoidable  accident,  the 
Board  of  Health  may,  at  its  discretion,  give  a  permit  to 
land  and  drive  such  cattle  at  other  hours  than  those  des- 
ignated herein,  but  in  no  case  shall  cattle  be  driven  past 
any  school  or  church.  • 

Sec.  70.  No  cattle  shall  be  kept  in  any  place  where 
the  ventilation  is  not  adequate  and  the  water  and  food 
are  not  of  such  quality  and  in  such  condition  as  to  pre- 


30  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

serve  their  health,  safe  condition,  and  wholesomeuess  for 
food. 

Sec.  71.  No  cows  shall  be  kept  in  the  City  of  New 
York  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 
Every  stable  and  place  where  any  cows,  horses,  or 
other  animals  may  be,  shall  be  kept  at  all  times  in  a 
cleanly  and  wholesome  condition,  and  properly  venti- 
lated, and  no  person  shall  allow  any  animal  to  be  there- 
in, which  is  infected  with  any  contagious  or  pestilential 
disease. 

Sec.  72.  No  horses  shall  be  yarded  and  no  cattle, 
swine,  or  sheep,  geese  or  goats,  shall  be  kept  or  yarded 
within  or  adjacent  to  the  built-up  portions  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  73.  No  cattle,  with  or  without  their  young 
calves,  shall  be  led  through  or  along  any  of  the  streets 
of  the  City  of  New  Y^ork  without  a  permit  from 
the  Board  of  Health,  and  in  strict  accordance  with  the 
routes,  hours,  and  conditions  prescribed  thereby;  and  no 
person  shall  lead,  attempt  to  lead,  or  cause  to  be  led,  any 
cattle  otherwise  than  singly,  one  person  with  each,  nor 
upon  any  sidewalks;  provided,  however,  that  sheep  may 
be  driven  on  routes  prescribed  for  them,  pursuant  to  the 
terms  and  conditions  of  the  permits  issued  by  the  Board 
of  Health. 

Sec.  74.  No  Texas,  Colorado  or  other  dangerous  cat- 
tle .-hall  l)e  itri\tn  through  or  along  the  public  streets, 
except  in  those  cases  only  where  the  cattle  shall  be  land- 
ed at  the  foot  of  the  street  leading  to  the  slaughter- 
house to  v/hich  such  cattle  shall  be  destined,  and  where 


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the  street  shall  be  efTectually  barred  or  closed,  so  as  to 
prevent  the  escape  of  such  cattle  during  the  transfer 
from  the  dock  to  such  slaughter-house,  and  no  such  cat- 
tle shall  be  landed  except  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions and  restrictions  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  75.  No  cellar  in  the  City  of  New  York  shall  be 
occupied  as  a  stable  for  horses,  cattle  or  other  animals, 
without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  76.  No  cattle  shall  be  placed  or  carried,  while 
bound  or  tied  by  their  legs,  or  bound  down  by  their 
necks,  in  any  vehicle  in  said  city,  but  shall  be  allowed 
freely  to  stand  in  such  vehicle  when  transported,  and 
while  being  therein. 

Sec.  77.  No  person  shall  take  or  drive  or  allow  to  go 
or  be  taken  (having  tjie  right  and  ability  to  prevent  the 
same),  any  horse  or  other  animal,  or  any  vehicle,  upon 
any  sidewalk  or  foot-path  in  front  of  any  building,  to 
the  peril  of  any  person;  nor  shall  any  person  block  up 
or  obstruct  any  street  or  place,  or  contribute  thereto. 

Fowls  and  Small  Animals. 

Sec.  78.  No  live  chickens,  geese,  ducks,  or  other  fowls 
shall  be  brought  into,  or  kept,  or  held,  or  offered  for 
sale,  or  killed,  in  any  yard,  area,  cellar,  coop,  building, 
premises,  or  part  thereof,  or  in  any  public  market,  or  on 
any  sidewalk,  street,  or  other  place  within  the  built-up 
portions  of  the  City  of  New  York,  without  a  permit 
from  the  Board  of  Health  and  subject  to  the  conditions 
thereof. 


32  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

Sec.  79.  No  person  shall  sell  or  keep  for  sale  at  any 
place  in  the  City  of  New  York  any  dogs,  cats,  birds  or 
other  small  animals,  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health. 

Sec.  80.  Xo  live  pigeons  shall  be  kept  within  the  built- 
up  portion  of  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit 
from  the  Board  of  Health  and  subject  to  the  conditions 
thereof. 

Slaughtering  and   Slaughter-Houses. 

Sec.  81.  No  person  shall  kill  or  dress  any  animal  or 
meat  in  any  market,  and  the  keeping  and  slaughtering 
of  all  cattle,  and  the  preparation  and  keeping  of  all 
meat  and  fish,  birds  and  fowl,  shall  be  in  that  manner 
which  is,  or  is  generally  reputed  or  known  to  be,  best 
adapted  to  secure  and  continue  their  safety  and  whole- 
someness  as  food. 

Sec.  82.  The  business  of  slaughtering  cattle,  sheep, 
swine,  pigs  or  calves  shall  not  be  conducted  in  the  City 
of  New  York  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 
Nor  shall  such  business  be  conducted  unless  the  same 
shall  be  in  buildings  located  on  or  near  the  water  front, 
and  all  buildings  shall  be  constructed  so  as  to  receive  all 
slock  deliverable  thereat  from  boats,  ears,  or  transports, 
and  to  secure  the  proper  care  and  disposition  of  all  parts 
of  the  slaughtered  animals  upon  the  premises,  or  the 
immediate  removal  thereof  by  means  of  boats.  It  shall 
not  be  unlawful,  however,  to  slaughter  cattle,  sheep, 
swine,  pigs  or  calves  in  the  Borough  of  Brooklyn,  at 
such  places  where  such  business  was  established  and 
carried  on    on  January  3,  1898. 


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See.  83.  The  business  of  slaiigliterinjr  cattle,  sheep, 
swine,  pigs  or  calves  in  the  Borough  of  jNIanhattan  shall 
be  conducted  on  the  west  side  of  the  Borough  between  the 
north  of  the  middle  line  of  the  block  between  W.  38th  and 
W.  39th  streets  and  the  south  side  of  W.  41st  street,  11th 
avenue  and  North  River,  inclusive ;  and  the  slaughtering 
of  cattle,  sh.eep  or  calves  on  the  east  side  of  the  Borough 
shall  be  between  the  north  of  the  middle  line  of  the 
block  between  East  42d  and  East  43d  streets  and  the 
south  side  of  East  47th  street,  First  avenue  and  East 
River,  inclusive. 

Sec.  84.  No  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  pigs  or  calves  shall 
be  driven  in  the  streets  or  avenues  of  the  Borough  of 
^lanhattan.  Cattle,  sheep,  swine,  pigs  or  calves  must  be 
driven  only  in  such  streets  and  avenues  as  shall  be  set 
apart  and  designated  by  the  Board  of  Health  in  the 
Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,  The  Bronx,  Queens  and  Rich- 
mond. 

Sec.  85.  No  building  shall  be  erected  or  converted 
into,  or  used  as  a  slaughter-house  in  the  City  of  New 
York  until  the  plans  thereof  have  been  duly  submitted 
to  the  Board  of  Healtli  and  approved  in  writing  by  said 
Board;  and  no  building  occupied  as  a  slaughter-house  or 
any  part  thereof,  or  any  building  on  the  same  lot,  shall 
be  occupied  at  any  time  as  a  dwelling  or  lodging  place; 
and  every  such  building  shall  at  all  times  be  kept 
adequately  and  thoroughly  ventilated. 

All  floors  where  any  meat,  refuse,  oflfal,  fertilizer  or 
any  other  materials,  derived  directly  or  indirectly  from 
slaughtering  of  animals,  are  treated  or  handled  must  be 
made  water  tight,  properly  drained  and  sewer. connected, 
and  the  walls  of  the  killing,  meat  dressing  and  cooling 


34  THE    SANITABY    CODE. 

rooms  must  be  covered  to  the  height  of  six  feet  above 
the  floor  with  some  non-absorbent  material. 

The  yards,  other  than  where  cattle  are  kept,  must  be 
cemented  or  paved  so  as  not  to  absorb  liquid  filth,  and 
be  so  graded  as  to  permit  the  same  to  flow  into  the 
sewer  opening. 

All  woodwork,  except  floors  and  counters,  must  be 
painted  or  whitewashed. 

Blood  from  slaughtered  animals  must  not  be  allowed 
to  flow  into  the  sewer  or  river,  but  while  still  fresh 
must  be  treated  so  as  not  to  become  offensive.  All  of- 
fensive odors  arising  from  the  handling  of  meat  and 
treating  of  and  caring  for  oflfal,  blood  or  any  other  ma- 
terial stored  or  manufactured,  must  be  cared  for  by 
destruction  or  condensation,  and  not  allowed  to  escape 
into  the  outside  air. 

Sec.  86.  No  horses  shall  be  slaughtered  in  the  City  of 
New  York  mthout  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

The  bringing  into  the  City  of  New  York  and  the  keep- 
ing or  selling  of  horse  flesh  for  food,  and  the  slaughter- 
ing of  horses  for  food  in  said  city  are  prohibited. 

Sec.  87.  No  ofl'al  or  butcher's  refuse  shall  be  conveyed 
through  any  street  or  avenue  or  over  any  ferry  in  the 
City  of  New  York  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health  and  when  so  conveyed  must  be  in  tight  boxes, 
barrels  or  receptacles,  and  tightly  covered  so  that  no 
odor  shall  escape  therefrom. 

No  ofl'al  or  butcher's  refuse  shall  be  brought  into  the 
City  of  New  York. 

Offensive  Trades. 

Sec.  88.  No  person  shall  permit  or  have  any  of- 
fensive water  or  other  liquid  or  substance  on  his  prem- 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  35 

ises  or  grounds,  to  the  prejudice  of  life  or  health,  whether 
for  use  in  any  trade  or  otherwise;  and  no  establishment 
or  place  of  business  for  tanning,  skinning,  or  scouring, 
or  for  dressing  hides  or  leather,  or  for  carrying  on  any 
offensive  or  noisome  trade  or  business,  shall  hereafter  be 
opened,  started,  established  or  maintained  in  the  City  of 
New  York,  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health, 
And  every  such  establishment  now  existing  shall  be  kept 
cleanly  and  wholesome,  and  be  so  conducted  in  every  par- 
ticular as  not  to  be  offensive,  or  prejudicial  to  life  or 
health. 

Sec.  89.  No  person  or  corporation  being  a  manufac- 
turer of  gas,  or  engaged  about  the  manufacture  thereof, 
shall  throw  or  deposit  or  allow  to  run,  or  shall  permit  to 
be  thrown  or  deposited  in  any  public  waters,  river  or 
stream,  or  in  any  sewer  therewith  connected,  or  in 
any  street,  or  public  place,  any  gas,  tar,  or  any  refuse 
matter  of  or  from  anj'  gas-house  works,  manufactory, 
mains  or  service  pipes;  or  permit  the  escape  of  any  of- 
fensive odors  from  their  works,  mains  or  pipes;  nor  shall 
any  such  person  or  corporation  permit  to  escape  from 
any  of  their  works,  mains,  or  pipes,  any  gas  dangerous 
or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health,  or  manufacture  illumi- 
nating gas  of  such  ingredients  and  quality  that  in  the 
process  of  burning  it  any  substance  which  may  escape 
therefrom  shall  be  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or 
health;  or  fail  to  use  the  most  approved  or  all  reasonable 
means  for  preventing  the  escape  of  odors. 

No  buildings  shall  be  erected  or  converted  into,  or  used 
as  a  place  for  the  manufacture  of  illuminating  gas,  until 
the  plans  of  such  buildings  and  the  location  thereof  have 
been  duly  approved  in  writing  by  the  Board  of  Health. 


36  THE    SANITARY    CODE, 

Sec.  90.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  or  per- 
sons, incorporated  or  unincorporated,  to  carry  on,  estab- 
lish, prosecute,  or  continue,  within  the  Borough  of  Man- 
liattan,  the  occupation,  or  trade,  or  business  of  bone 
boiling,  bone  burning,  bone  grinding,  horse  skinning,  cow 
skinning,  or  skinning  of  dead  animals,  or  the  boiling  of 
offal;  and  any  such  establishment  or  establishments,  or 
place  of  such  business  existing  within  said  borough,  shall 
be  forthwith  removed  out  of  said  borough,  and  siich 
trade,  occupation,  or  business  shall  be  forthwith  abated 
and  discontinued,  providing  that  nothing  in  this  section 
contained  shall  apply  to  the  slaughtering  or  dressing  of 
animals  for  sale  in  said  citv. 


Sec.  91.  The  business  of  bone  crushing,  bone  boiling, 
bone  grinding,  bone  or  shell  burning,  lime  making, 
horse  skinning,  cow  skinning,  glue  making  "from 
any  part  of  dead  animals,  gut  cleaning,  hide  curing, 
fat  rendering,  boiling  of  fish,  swill  or  offal,  heating,  dry- 
ing, storing  of  blood,  scrap,  fat,  grease  or  offensive  ani- 
mal or  vegetable  matter,  or  manufacturing  materials  for 
manure  or  fertilizer,  shall  not  be  carried  on  or  continued 
within  the  Boroughs  of  BrookljTi,  The  Bronx,  Queens  or 
Richmond  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Nor   shall   any  buildings   be   erected   or   converted   or 
used  for  the  carrying  on  of   any  business   above  men- 
tioned until  the  plans  thereof  have  been  duly  submitted 
to  the  Board  of  Health  and  approved  in  writing  by  said  | 
Board. 

Sec.  92.  No  occupation  or  business  that  is  dangerous 
or  detrimental  to  life  or  health  shall  be  established  or 
carried  on  in  the  City  of  Xew  York. 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  37 

Sec.  93.  All  persons  engaged  in  the  business  of  boil- 
ing or  rendering  fat,  lard,  or  animal  matter,  siiall  cause 
the  scrap  or  residuum  to  hv  dried  or  otherwise  prepared 
so  as  to  effectuallj-  deprive  such  material  of  all  od'ensive 
odors,  and  to  preser\e'the  same  entirely  inoffensive,  im- 
mediately after  the  removal  thereof  from  the  receptacles 
in  which  the  rendering  process  may  be  conducted. 

Sec.  94.  Xo  person  shall  hereafter  erect  or  establish 
in  said  city  any  manufactory  or  place  of  business  for 
boiling  any  varnish  or  oil,  or  for  the  distilling  of  any 
ardent  or  alcoholic  spirits,  or  for  making  any  lampblack, 
turpentine,  or  tar,  or  for  the  treating  and  refining  of 
ores,  metals  or  alloys  of  metals,  with  acids  or  heat,  or 
for  conducting  any  other  business  that  will  or  does  gen- 
erate any  offensive  or  deleterious  gas,  vapor,  deposit  or 
exhalation  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  95.  No  fat,  tallow  or  lard  shall  be  melted  or 
rendered,  except  when  fresh  from  the  slaughtered  ani- 
mal, and  taken  directly  from  the  places  of  slaughter  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  and  in  a  condition  free  from 
sourness  and  taint  and  all  other  causes  of  offense  at  the 
time  of  rendering,  and  all  melting  and  rendering  must 
be  in  steam-tight  vessels,  and  the  gases  and  odors  there- 
j  from  must  be  destroyed  by  combustion  or  other  means 
equally  effective,  and  according  to  the  best  and  most  im- 
proved means  and  processes;  and  everything  preceding, 
following,  and  in  connection  with  such  melting  and  ren- 
dering, and  the  premises  where  the  same  shall  be  con- 
ducted, must  be  free  from  all  offensive  odor,  and  other 
cause  of  detriment  to  the  public  health.  No  fat,  lard  or 
tallow  shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  to 
be   rendered   or   melted,   and   none   shall    be   rendered   or 


38  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

melted  that  has  come  from  any  jjlace  outside  of   said 
city. 

Sec.  96.  Tlie  owners,  lessees,  tenants,  occupants 
and  managers  of  every  blacksmith  or  other  shop,  forge, 
coal-yard,  foundry,  manufactory,  and  premises  where 
any  business  is  done,  or  in  or  upon  which  an  engine,  or 
boilers,  or  locomotives  are  used,  shall  cause  all  ashes, 
cinders,  rubbish,  dirt  and  refuse  to  be  removed  to  some 
proper  place,  so  that  the  same  shall  not  accumulate  at 
any  of  the.  above-mentioned  premises,  or  in  the  appurte- 
nances thereof,  nor  the  same  become  filthy  or  offensive. 
Nor  shall  any  owner,  lessee,  tenant,  occupant,  manager, 
engineer,  fireman,  or  any  other  person,  cause,  suffer  or 
allow  any  cinders,  dust,  gas,  steam  or  offensive  odor  to 
escape  or  be  discharged  from  any  such  building,  place  or 
premises,  to  the  detriment  or  annoyance  of  any  person 
not  being  therein  or  thereupon  engaged. 

Nor  shall  any  such  owner,  lessee,  tenant,  occupant, 
superintendent,  manager,  engineer,  fireman,  or  anj^  other 
person,  cause,  suffer  or  allow  smoke  to  escape  or  be  dis- 
charged from  any  such  building,  place  or  premises  or 
from  any  engine  or  locomotive  used  therein  or  thereon. 

Sec.  97.  Every  owner,  lessee,  tenant,  and  occupant  of 
any  stall,  stable,  or  apartment  in  the  built-up  portions 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  in  which  any  horse,  cattle, 
or  other  animal  shall  be  kept,  or  of  any  place  in  which 
manure,  stable  refuse,  or  any  liquid  discharge  of  such 
animals  shall  collect  or  accumulate  shall  cause  such  ma- 
nure, stable  refuse,  or  liquid  to  be  promptly  and  prop- 
erly removed  therefrom,  and  shall  at  all  times  keep  or 
cause  to  be  kept  such  stalls,  stables  or  apartments, 
and  the  drains,  yards,  and  appurtenances  thereof,  in  a 


THE    SANITAKY    CODE.  39 

clean  and  sanitary  condition,  so  that  no  olFensive  odors 
shall  be  allowed  to  escape  therefrom.  Every  such  stable, 
and  the  yards  and  appurtenances  thereof,  shall  bt;  con- 
nected with  the  sewer  in  the  street  in  front  thereof.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  every  such  owner,  lessee,  tenant  or 
occupant  to  cause  all  manure  and  stable  refuse  to  be  re- 
moved daily  from  such  stable  or  stable  premises,  unless 
the  same  are  pressed  in  bales,  barrels  or  boxes,  as  here- 
inafter provided.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  to  remove  ma- 
nure and  stable  refuse  in  carts  or  wagons,  or  to  cart  the 
same  within  the  city  without  a  pormit  from  tne  Board 
of  Health,  and  such  carts  and  wagons  shall  be  of  a  con- 
struction approved  by  said  Board,  and  every  such  cart 
or  wagon  must  have  a  permit  from  the  Board,  and  be 
used  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  such  permit  and 
not  otherwise.  Manure  carts  and  wagons  shall  be  loaded 
within  the  stable  premises  and  not  upon  the  street  or 
sidewalk,  and  the  manure  and  stable  refuse  shall  be  re- 
moved from  such  premises  in  a  manner  not  in  any  way 
offensive  or  so  as  to  cause  any  nuisance.  All  manure 
and  stable  refuse  when  transported  through  the  streets 
must  be  covered  and  secured  so  that  no  part  of  the  same 
will  fall  upon  the  street,  and  so  as  to  prevent  the 
escape  of  offensive  odors,  and  the  same  shall  not 
be  unloaded  or  deposited  within  the  city  limits,  ex- 
cept upon  the  conditions  of  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health,  and  at  such  docks  and  places  as  shall  be  ap- 
proved by  the  Board,  and  to  which  a  permit  in  writing 
for  such  use  shall  have  previously  been  granted  by  said 
Board.  No  manure  or  stable  refuse  shall  be  thrown 
upon  or  allowed  to  fall  or  remain  upon  any  street  or 
sidewalk  or  upon  any  ground  rear  any  stable.  No  ma- 
nure vault  shall  be  built  or  used  on  any  premisos  within 
the  built-up  portions  of  the  City  of  New  York. 


40  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

Every  owner,  lessee,  tenant  and  occupant  of  any  stall, 
stable  or  apartment,  in  the  built-up  portions  of  the  City 
of  NeAv  York,  in  which  any  horse,  cattle  or  other  animals 
shall  be  kept,  and  from  which  the  manure  and  stable 
refuse  are  not  removed  daily  as  hereinbefore  provided, 
shall  cause  the  same  to  be  pressed  in  bales,  barrels  or 
boxes,  at  least  once  in  each  day,  and  so  pressed  as  to 
reduce  the  same  to  not  more  than  one-third  of  the' 
original  bulk,  ]Manure  and  stable  refuse  pressed  in 
bales,  barrels  or  boxes,  shall  be  removed  to  such  docks 
or  places  as  shall  be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
and  to  which  a  permit  for  such  use  shall  have  previously 
been  gi-anted  by  said  Board,  aiid  such  bales,  barrels  and 
boxes  shall  not  be  opened  until  delivered  at  such  docks 
or  places. 

Offensive  Materials. 

Sec,  98,  Xo  person  shall  fill  in  any  land  under  or 
above  water  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  New  York, 
or  any  of  tlie  islands  situated  within  such  limits,  with 
garbage,  dead  animals,  decaying  matter  or  any  offensive 
and  unwholesome  material,  or  with  dirt,  ashes,  or  other 
refuse,  when  mixed  with  such  garbage,  dead  animals  or 
portions  thereof,  decaying  matter,  or  offensive  and  un- 
wholesome material. 

Xo  street  sweepings  shall  be  deposited  or  used  to  fill 
up  or  raise  the  surface  or  level  of  any  lot,  grounds,  dock, 
wharf,  or  pier  in  or  adjacent  to  the  built-up  portions  of 
the  City  of  Xew  Y^ork  without  a  permit  from  the  Board 
of  Health. 

Sec.  99.  Xo  ground  or  material  filled  with  offensive 
matter  or  substance,  or  that  will  emit  or  allow  to  arise 
through  or  from  the  same,  any  offensive  smell  or  dele- 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  41 

terious  exhalation,  shall  (adjacent  to  or  within  the  built- 
up  portion  of  said  city)  be  opened  or  turned  up  or  the 
surface  thereof  removed,  between  the  first  day  of  May 
and  the  first  day  of  October  of  any  year,  except  accord- 
ing to  a  permit  first  obtained  therefor  from  the  Board 
of  Health. 

Sec.  100.  No  part  of  the  contents  of  or  substances 
fiom  any  sink,  privy,  or  cesspool,  nor  any  manure,  or 
other  offensive  substance,  shall  be  by  any  person  de- 
posited or  allowed  to  run  or  drop  into  or  remain  in  any 
street  or  public  place;  nor  shall  the  same  be  thrown  or 
allowed  to  fall  or  run  into  any  river  or  other  body  of 
water,  save  through  the  proper  underground  sewers. 

Sec.  101.  No  person  shall  gather,  collect,  accumulate, 
store,  expose,  carry,  or  transport  in  any  manner  through 
the  streets  and  public  places  of  this  city,  or  in  or  to  any 
cellar,  or  house  in  said  city,  any  bones,  refuse,  or  of- 
fensive material  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health. 

Sec.  102.  No  swill,  brine,  urine  of  animals,  or  other 
offensive  animal  matter,  nor  any  stinking,  noxious  liquid, 
or  other  filthy  matter  of  any  kind,  shall  by  any  person 
he  allowed  to  run  or  fall  into  or  upon  any  street  or 
public  place,  or  be  taken  or  put  therein. 

Sec.  103.  No  blood,  butcher's  offal  or  garbage,  nor  any 
dead  animals,  nor  any  putrid  or  stinking  animal  or  vege- 
table matter,  shall  be  thrown  by  any  person  or  allowed 
to  go  into  any  street,  place,  sewer  or  receiving  basin,  or 
into  any  river  or  standing  or  running  water  or  excava- 


42  THE    SANITAEY    CODE. 

tion  or  into  any  ground  or  premises  in  the  built-up  por- 
tions of  the  city. 

Sec.  104.  Xo  person  shall  draw  off,  or  allow  to  run 
oflf  into  any  ground,  street  or  place  of  said  city,  the  con- 
tents (or  any  part  thereof)  of  any  vault,  privy,  cistern, 
cesspool,  or  sink;  nor  shall  any  owner,  tenant,  or  occu- 
pant of  any  building  to  which  any  vault,  sink,  privy,  or 
cesspool  shall  appertain,  or  be  attached,  permit  the  con- 
tents or  any  part  thereof,  to  flow  therefrom,  or  to  rise 
within  two  feet  of  any  part  of  the  top,  or  permit  said 
contents  to  become  offensive ;  nor  shall  any  vault,  privy, 
cistern,  cesspool  or  sink  be  filled  or  covered  with  dirt 
until  it  has  been  emptied  of  its  filthy  contents. 


Sec.  105.  Xo  person  shall  throw  into  or  deposit  in 
any  vault,  sink,  privy,  or  cesspool,  any  offal,  ashes, 
meat,  fish,  garbage,  or  other  substance  except  that  of 
which  any  such  place  is  the  appropriate  receptacle. 

Sec.  106.  Every  tub  or  other  receptacle  in  any 
sink,  or  privy  (or  placed,  or  allowed  to  stand  there- 
in by  any  owner,  tenant,  or  occupant  of  any  building 
or  premises),  and  used  to  contain  any  liquid  or 
partially  liquid  substance,  shall  be  sufficiently  strong, 
perfectly  tight,  and  adequately  provided  with  a  strong 
cover  and  with  hoops  and  handles;  shall  not  be  allowed 
to  be  filled  to  within  four  inches  of  any  part  of  the  top, 
and  shall  not  be  allowed  (or  its  contents)  to  be  offensive. 
And  the  provisions  of  this  Code  relatiA^e  to  emptying 
cesspools,  and  to  throwing  any  substance  therein,  shall 
apply  to  said  tubs  and  receptacles  as  if  here  repeated 
and  applied  thereto. 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  43 

And  no  person  shall  throw,  drop  or  allow  to  fall  into 
the  North  or  East  river,  or  into  any  street  or  place,  any 
substance  being,  or  having  been,  part  of  the  contents  of 
any  such  vault,  cesspool,  privy,  sink,  tub  or  receptacle, 
or  any  offal. 

Sec.  107.  Neither  the  contents  of  any  such  tub,  or  of 
any  receptacle,  cesspool,  privy,  vault,  sink,  water-closet 
or  cistern,  nor  anything  in  any  room,  excavation, 
vat,  building,  premises  or  place,  shall  be  allowed  to  be- 
come a  nuisance,  or  offensive,  so  as  to  be  dangerous  or 
prejudicial  to  life  or  health. 

Sec.  108.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  owner,  tenant, 
lessee,  and  occupant  of  any  and  every  building,  or  place 
of  business  in  the  generally  built-up  portions  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  forthwith  to  provide  or  cause  to  be  pro- 
vided, and  at  all  times  thereafter  to  keep  and  cause  to 
be  kept  and  provided,  within  such  building  or  place  of 
business,  and  for  the  exclusive  use  of  such  building  or 
place  of  business,  separate  receptacles  for  receiving  and 
holding,  without  leakage,  all  the  ashes,  garbage,  and 
liquid  substances  that  may  accumulate  during  thirty- 
six  hours,  from  said  building  or  place  of  business,  or  the 
portion  thereof  of  which  such  person  may  be  the  owner, 
tenant,  lessee,  or  occupant;  and  every  such  receptacle  de- 
signed and  used  to  hold  ashes  shall  be  made  of  or  lined 
with  some  suitable  metal. 

All  such  materials  and  substances  shall  be  separated 
and  put  into  their  respective  receptacles,  and  such  re- 
ceptacles shall  not  be  filled  to  within  four  inches  of  the 
top  thereof. 

Such  receptacles,  as  well  as  any  light  refuse  or  rub- 
bish to  be  removed,  shall  be  kept  within  the  premises 


44  THE    SANITARY    CODE, 

until  the  proper  time  for  removal  and  shall  then  be 
placed  in  the  area,  or  within  the  stoop-line  only  and 
shall  there  remain  until  such  materials  or  substances 
are  removed  by  the  Department  of  Street  Cleaning,  but 
in  no  case  shall  such  receptacles  be  placed  where  they 
shall  be  or  become  a  nuisance. 

All  light  refuse  or  rubbish,  likely  to  be  scattered  or 
blown  about,  shall,  before  being  placed  outside  of  any 
building  or  premises  for  removal,  be  properly  bundled, 
packed  or  otherwise  secured. 

Sec.  109.  Xo  person,  not  for  that  purpose  authorized, 
shall  interfere  with  such  receptacles  or  with  the  con- 
tents thereof,  nor  shall  such  person  in  any  way  handle 
or  disturb  such  contents. 

Sec.  110.  All  occupants  so  preferring  may  deliver 
their  ashes,  garbage  and  rubbish  directly  to  the  proper 
carts,  to  be  taken  away  at  any  hour  of  the  day  when 
said  carts  may  be  present;  and  said  carts  may  take  such 
articles  from  receptacles  delivered  at  any  such  hour;  pro- 
vided that  such  garbage  or  rubbish  be  not  highly  filthy 
or  offensive;  and  in  the  latter  case,  the  same  shall  not 
be  so  delivered  or  received  dui'ing  the  period  from  seven 
o'clock  a.  m.  of  any  day  till  ten  o'clock  of  the  evening 
of  the  same  day. 

Sec.  111.  No  pile  or  deposit  of  manure,  offal,  dirt  or 
garbage,  or  any  accumulation  of  any  offensive  or  nau- 
seous substance,  shall  be  made  within  the  built-up  por- 
tions of  the  City  of  New  York,  or  upon  the  piers,  docks 
or  bulkheads  adjacent  thereto,  or  upon  any  vessel  or 
scow  lying  at  such  pier,  wharf  or  bulkhead;  nor  shall 
such  deposit  or  accumulations  be  made  anywhere  in  this 


THE    SAMTAUY    CODE.  46 

city  within  throe  hundred  feet  of  any  church  or  place  of 
worship,  or  inhabited  dwelling,  without  a  permit  from 
tlie  JJoard  of  Healtli;  and  no  person  shall  contribute  to 
tlic  making  of  any  such  accumulations;  nor  shall  cars  or 
floats  loaded  with  or  having  in  or  upon  them  any  such 
substance  or  substances  be  allowed  to  remain  or  stand 
on  or  along  any  railroad,  street  or  highway  within  300 
feet  of  any  inhabited  dwelling,  nor  elsewhere  in  said  city 
without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Ilcaltli ;  and  no 
manure,  garbage  or  other  material  that  is  liable  to  emit 
an  offensive  exhalation,  shall,  in  or  adjacent  to  the  built- 
up  portions  of  the  City  of  New  York,  be  turned  or 
stirred,  except  about  its  removal,  in  such  a  way  as  to 
increase  such  exhalations  by  reason  thereof;  nor  shall 
any  straw,  hay  or  other  substance  which  has  been  used 
as  bedding  for  animals,  be  placed  or  dried  upon  any 
street,  or  sidewalk,  or  roof  of  any  building;  nor  shall 
any  straw,  hay  or  other  substance,  or  the  contents  of  any 
mattress  or  bed,  be  -deposited  or  burnt,  without  a  permit 
from  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  112,  Every  proprietor,  lessee,  tenant,  and  occu- 
pant of  any  oyster-house,  oyster-saloon  or  other  prem- 
ises where  any  oysters,  clams,  lobsters,  or  shell  or  other 
fish  are  consumed,  used,  or  sold,  or  where  any  of  the 
refuse  matter,  offal,  or  shells  thereof  accumulate  shall 
daily  cause  all  such  shells,  offal,  and  refuse  matter  to  be 
removed  therefrom  to  some  proper  place,  and  shall  keep 
his  house,  saloon  and  premises  at  all  times  free  from 
any  offensive  smells  or  accumulations. 

Sec.  113.  No  person  shall  obstruct,  delay,  or  inter- 
fere with  the  proper  and  free  use,  for  the  purposes  for 
which  they  may  be  and  should  be  set  apart  and  devoted, 


46  THE    SANITAKY    CODE. 

of  any  dock,  pier,  or  bulkhead  set  apart  for  the  use  of 
any  contractor  or  person  engaged  in  removing  any  offal, 
garbage,  rubbish,  dirt,  dead  animal,  night-soil,  or  other 
like  substances,  or  with  the  proper  performance  of  such 
contracts. 

Sec.  114.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person 
(his  agents  and  employes)  who  has  contracted  or 
undertaken  to  remove  any  diseased  or  dead  animal,  offal, 
rubbish,  garbage,  dirt,  street- sweepings,  night-soil,  or 
other  filthy,  offensive,  or  noxious  substance,  or  is  en- 
gaged about  any  such  removal,  or  in  loading  or  unload- 
ing any  such  substance,  to  do  the  same  with  dispatch, 
and  in  every  particular  in  a  manner  as  cleanly  and  little 
offensive,  and  with  as  little  danger  and  prejudice  to  iife 
and  health  as  possible,  and  no  matter  or  material  shall 
lie  piled  up,  or  partially  raked  together,  in  any  street  or 
place  before  the  removal  thereof,  mor'e  than  a  reasonable 
time,  nor  for  more  than  four  hours  in  the  daytime,  un- 
der any  circumstances. 

Sec.  115.  Xo  ship,  boat,  or  other  vessel,  shall  be 
taken  or  allowed  by  any  person  to  come  into  or 
lay  to,  or  at,  or  within  any  dock,  pier,  bulkhead,  or 
slip,  or  be  placed  therein  for  the  purpose  of  the  shipment 
or  removal  of  any  offal,  garbage,  rubbish,  blood  or  offen- 
siA-e  animal  or  vegetable  matter,  dirt  or  dead  animals, 
or  for  the  use  of  any  contractor  for  the  removal  of  any 
of  the  foregoing  substances,  without  a  permit  from  the 
Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  116.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  owner,  lessee, 
and  tenant  of  any  vacant,  sunken,  or  excavated  lot  in  the 
City  of  New  l^ork  to  keep  the  same  at  all  times  clean 
and  inoffensive,  and  free  from  the  accumulation  of  wa- 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  47 

ter  tbercon,  and  to  maintain  around  the  same  a  proper 
fence,  so  as  to  effectually  prevent  the  throwing  or  de- 
positing therein  or  thereupon  any  garbage  or  offensive 
thing  whatsoever,  and  so  as  to  prevent  persons  passing 
from  falling  into  such  excavation. 

Sec.  117.  No  person  shall  deposit  upon  any  street  or 
public  place  vvrithin  the  generally  built-up  portion  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  or  upon  any  paved  street,  any  dirt 
or  brick,  or  other  material,  or  dirt  taken  from  any 
ground  therein,  in  such  manner  as  to  occupy  more  than 
one  hundred  square  feet  of  surface  of  any  street  or  place 
(and  the  same  shall  be  compact  and  at  one  side);  nor 
shall  any  person  allow  the  same  to  remain  in  said  street 
or  public  place  more  than  twelve  hours,  without  a  permit 
from  the  Board  of  Health,  or  unless  such  occupancy  shall 
be  otherwise  duly  authorized  by  paramount  authority. 
Nor  shall  any  such  substance  be  so  deposited  or  allow^ed 
to  remain  hy  any  person,  as  to  obstruct  the  free  flowage 
along  any  gutter. 

Sec.  118.  No  lime,  ashes,  coal,  dry  sand,  hair,  feathers, 
or  other  substance  that  is  in  a  similar  manner  liable  to  be 
blown  by  the  wind,  shall  be  sieved,  agitated  or  ex- 
posed, nor  shall  any  mat,  carpet  or  cloth  be  shaken  or 
beaten,  nor  shall  any  cloth,  yarn,  garment,  material,  or 
substance  be  scoured,  cleaned,  or  hung,  nor  shall  any 
rags,  damaged  merchandise,  barrels,  boxes,  or  broken 
bales  of  merchandise  or  goods,  be  placed,  kept,  or  ex- 
posed in  any  place  v.  here  thoy  or  particles  therefrom  will 
pass  into  any  street  or  public  place,  or  into  any  oc- 
cupied premises.  Neither  shall  any  usual  nor  any  rea- 
sonable precautions  be  omitted  by  any  person  to  pro- 
vent  fragments  or  other  substances  from  falling,  to  the 


48  THE    SAXITARY    CODE. 

peril  of  life,  or  dust  or  light  material  flying  into  any 
street,  place,  or  building,  from  any  building  or  erection, 
while  the  same  is  being  altered,  repaired  or  demolished, 
or  otherwise. 

Removal  of  Filth. 
Sec.  119.  No  person  shall  engage  in  the  business  of 
transporting  manure,  swill,  garbage,  offal,  or  any  offen- 
sive or  noxious  substance,  or  drive  any  cart  for  such  pur- 
pose, in  the  City  of  New  York,  without  a  permit  from 
the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  120.  No  cart  or  other  vehicle  for  carrying  any 
manure,  swill,  garbage,  offal,  or  rubbish,  or  other 
nauseous  or  offensiA^e  substance,  or  the  contents  of  any 
priAy,  vault,  cesspool,  or  sink,  shall,  without  necessity 
therefor,  be  allowed  to  stand  or  remain  before  or  near 
any  building,  place  of  business,  or  other  premises  where 
any  person  may  be;  nor  shall  any  such  cart  or  vehicle 
be  allowed  to  occupy  an  unreasonable  length  of  time 
in  loading  or  unloading,  or  in  passing  along  any  street 
or  through  any  inhabited  place  or  grounds.  Such 
carts,  vehicles,  and  all  implements  used  in  connection 
tlierewith  must  be  kept  in  an  inoffensive  and  sanitary 
condition,  and,  when  not  in  use,  shall  be  stored  and  kept 
in  some  place  where  no  needless  offense  shall  be  given 
to  any  of  the  people  of  said  city. 

Sec.  121.  All  carts  and  vehicles  for  carrying  any 
nauseous  or  offensive  substances,  boxes,  tubs  and  recep- 
tacles in  which  any  nauseous  or  offensive  substance  may 
be,  or  may  be  carried,  shall  be  strong  and  tight,  and  the 
sides  shall  be  so  high  above  the  load  or  contents,  that  no 
part  of  such  contents  or  load  shall  fall,  leak,  or  spill 
therefrom;  and  either  the  vehicle  or  vessel  carried  by  it 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  49 

shall  be  so  covered  as  to  be  inofrensive;  and  all  such  ma- 
terial shall  be  loaded  and  removed  in  a  sanitary  man- 
ner, and  according  to  the  regulations  of  the  Department 
of  Health,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  re- 
moving any  offensive  material  to  at  once  replace  in  said 
vehicle  or  vessel  any  material  that  may  have  fallen 
therefrom  upon  or  in  any  place,  street  or  premises. 

Sec.  122.  All  putrid  or  oUtnsive  matter,  and  all  night- 
soil,  and  the  contents  of  sinks,  privies,  vaults  and  cess- 
pools, and  all  noxious  substances,  shall,  before  their  re- 
moval or  exposure,  be  disinfected  and  rendered  inof- 
fensive by  the  owner,  lessee,  or  occupant  of  the  premises 
where  the  same  may  be,  or  by  the  person  or  contractor 
who  removes  or  is  about  to  remove  the  same;  and  no 
part  of  the  contents  of  any  vault,  privy,  sink  or  cess- 
pool shall  be  removed  without  a  permit  from  the  Board 
of  Health. 

Sec.  123.  Xo  boat,  scow  or  other  receptacle  used  in 
transporting  garbage  to  Barren  Island  or  the  place  of 
disposal  shall  be  permitted  to  remain  moored  or  be  at 
any  dock,  wharf  or  place  within  the  limits  of  the  City 
of  New  York  for  a  longer  period  than  twenty -four 
hours  from  the  time  garbage  is  first  delivered  or  placed 
thereon.  Garbage  shall  be  received  on  such  boat,  scow 
or  other  receptacle,  and  transported,  in  a  manner  ap- 
proved b}-  the  Board  of  Health. 

Diseased,    Injured    and    Dead    Animals. 
Sec.    124.     Xo   diseased   cattle,   swino,    sheep,     horses, 
dogs  or  cats,  which  are  suffering  from  or  have  been  ex- 
posed to  any  disease  which  is  contagious  among  such 
animals,  shall  be  brought  into  or  kept  in  the  City  of 


50  THE    SAXITARY    CODE. 

New  York.  All  persons,  corporations,  or  companies 
bringing  milch  cows  into  the  City  of  New  York  shall 
furnish  a  certificate  signed  by  a  veterinarian  who  is  a 
graduate  of  a  recognized  veterinary  college,  with  the  date 
of  gi-aduation  and  the  name  of  the  college  from  which  the 
degree  was  received,  to  the  effect  that  said  cows  are  free 
from  tuberculosis  as  far  as  may  be  determined  by  physi- 
cal examination  and  the  tuberculin  test.  Said  certificate 
shall  give  a  number  which  has  been  permanently  attached 
to  each  cow,  and  a  description  sufficiently  accurate  for 
identification,  stating  the  date  (which  must  be  not  more 
than  sixty  days  prior  to  the  time  they  are  brought  into 
the  city),  the  place  of  examination,  the  temperature  of 
the  cow  or  cows  at  intervals  of  three  hours,  for  twelve 
hours  before  the  subcutaneous  injection  of  the  tuber- 
culin, the  preparation  of  tuberculin  used,  the  location 
of  the  injection,  the  quantity  injected,  the  temperatm'e 
at  the  tenth  hour  after  the  injection  of  the  tuberculin 
and  every  three  hours  after  the  aforesaid  tenth  hour  for 
twelve  hours,  or  until  the  reaction  is  completed.  No  cow 
with  a  certificate  which  states  that  said  cow  gave  a  re- 
action of  two  degTees  F.  after  the  injection  with  0.5  c.  c. 
of  the  tuberculin  prepared  by  the  Department  of  Health 
of  the  City  of  New  Y^ork  (or  its  equivalent),  diluted 
with  ten  times  its  volume  of  a  0.5  per  cent,  watery  solu- 
tion of  carbolic  acid,  shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of 
New  York. 

Sec.  125.  No  person  shall  keep,  or  retain,  or  allow  or 
cause  to  be  kept  or  retained,  at  any  place  within  the 
City  of  New  Y'ork,  any  animal  ha^dng  the  disease  known 
as  glanders,  or  farcy  or  any  other  contagious  disease,  but 
shall  forthwith  report  the  fact  to  the  Department  of 
Health  of  said  city  and  under  the  direction  of  the  Sani- 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  51 

tary  Superintendent  or  Assistant  Sanitary  Superintend- 
ent shall  destroy  or  cause  to  be  destroyed,  remove  or 
cause  to  be  removed  and  dispose  of  such  animal  or  ani- 
mals in  a  manner  designated  by  the  Sanitary  Superin- 
tendent or  Assistant  Sanitary  Superintendent,  and  every 
person  who  destroys  any  such  animal  shall  forthwith 
notify  the  Department  of  Health  of  such  destruction,  the 
place  of  destruction  and  the  disposition  of  the  body  of 
such  animal. 

Sec.  126,  All  dead  horses,  before  they  are  placed  in 
the  street,  must  have  a  tag  attached  giving  the  name 
and  address  of  the  owner  and  the  stable  from  which  the 
horse  was   removed. 

Sec.  127.  Every  veterinary  surgeon  who  is  called  to 
examine  or  professionally  attend  any  animal  within  the 
City  of  New  York  having  the  glanders  or  farcy  or  any 
contagious  disease  shall  report  forthwith  in  ^^Titing  to 
the  Board  of  Health  of  said  city  the  following  facts, 
viz.:  1st,  a  statement  of  the  location  of  such  diseased 
animal;  2d,  the  name  and  address  of  the  owner  thereof; 
3d,  the  type  and  character  of  the  disease. 

Sec.  128.  Xo  person  shall  leave  in  or  throw  into  any 
place  or  street,  or  public  water,  or  offensively  expose 
or  bury,  the  body  (or  any  part  thereof)  of  any  dead  or 
fatally  sick  or  injured  animal;  nor  shall  any  person  keep 
any  dead  animal  or  any  offensive  meat,  bird,  fowl,  or 
fish  in  a  place  \\'hore  the  same  may  be  dan^orous  to  ihv 
life  or  detrimental  to  the  health  of  any  person. 

See.  129.  Any  animal,  being  in  any  street  or  public 
place,  within  or  adjacent  to  the  built-up  portion  of  New 


52  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

York  City,  and  appearing  in  the  estimation  of  any  officer 
or  inspector  of  this  Department  (and  of  two  discreet 
citizens,  called  by  such  officer  or  inspector  to  view  the 
same  in  his  presence)  injured  or  diseased  past  recovery, 
for  any  useful  purpose,  and  not  being  attended  and 
properly  cared  for  by  the  owner  or  some  proper  person 
having  charge  thereof  for  such  owner,  or  not  having 
been  removed  to  some  private  premises,  or  to  some  place 
designated  by  such  officer  or  inspector,  within  one  hour 
after  being  found  or  left  in  such  condition,  may  be 
deprived  of  life  by  such  officer  or  inspector,  or  as  he  may 
direct;  and  shall  thereafter,  unless  at  once  removed  by 
the  o^vner  or  person,  be  treated  as  any  other  animal 
found  on  a  street  or  place. 


Sec.  130.  Any  person  having  a  dead  animal  or  an 
animal  past  recovery,  and  not  killed  for  and  proper  for 
use  as  food,  or  in  any  offensive  condition,  or  sick 
with  an  infectious  or  contagious  disease,  on  his  premises 
in  said  city,  and  every  person  whose  animal  or  any  ani- 
mal in  his  charge  or  under  his  control  in  any  street  or 
place,  may  die  or  become  or  be  in  a  condition  past  recov- 
ery, shall  at  once  notify  the  Department  of  Health,  and 
under  the  direction  of  the  Sanitary  Superintendent  or  an 
Assistant  Sanitary  Superintendent  or  an  officer  of  the 
Police  Department,  remove  or  cause  the  removal  of  such 
animal,  dead  or  alive,  to  such  place  as  may  be  designated 
by  such  official. 

Sec.  131.  Xo  person  other  than  the  inspectors  or  offi- 
cers of  this  Department  or  the  Police  Department,  or 
persons  thereto  authorized,  shall  in  any  way  interfere 
with  such  dead,  sick  or  injured  animal  in  any  street  or 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  53 

place,  and  no  person  shall  skin  or  wound  such  animal 
in  such  street  or  public  place,  unless  to  terminate  its  life 
as  herein  authorized,  except  that  the  owner  or  person 
having  control  of  such  animal  may  terminate  the  life 
thereof  in  the  presence  and  by  the  consent  of  a  police- 
man or  an  inspector  or  oflicer  of  this  Department. 

Sec.  132.  Every  animal  which  shows  symptoms  of 
rabies  and  every  animal  that  has  been  exposed  to 
such  disease  shall,  by  the  person  owning  the  same  or 
having  possession  thereof,  be  at  once  confined  in  some 
secure  place  for  such  length  of  time  as  to  determine 
whether  such  di3ert^>c'  exists  or  to  show  that  sucli  ex- 
posure has  not  given  such  animal  said  disease,  and  so  as 
to  avoid  all  danger  to  life  or  health.  And  such  person 
shall  also  forthwith  notify  the  Department  of  Health 
thereof  and  of  the  place  where  such  animal  is  confined. 
Every  animal  which  is  mad  or  has  rabies  shall 
at  once  be  killed  by  the  owmer  or  person  having 
possession  thereof,  or  by  the  Department  of  Health,  and 
the  body  of  any  animal  that  has  died  of  such  disease,  or 
being  suspected  of  such  disease  has  been  killed,  shall  be 
at  once  surrendered  to  the  Department  of  Health  to  be 
by  it  disposed  of. 

'  Should  a  dog  bite  any  person  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  owner,  or  person  having  the  same  in  his  possession 
or  under  his  control,  to  at  once  notify  said  Department 
thereof,  and  surrender  said  dog  to  said  Department  for 
inspection  and  observation;  and  such  dog  shall  be  re- 
turned to  the  person  from  whom  the  same  shall  have 
been  received  if  found  not  rabid,  and  if  found  to  be  rabid, 
it  shall  be  destroyed  by  said  Department. 

When  the  police  or  other  person  or  authorities  destroy 
a  dog  for  any  of  the  causes  herein  mentioned,  it  shall 


54  THE    SANITAEY    CODE. 

be  his  or  their  duty  to  immediately  notify  the  said  De- 
partment thereof  and  of  the  location  of  its  body,  so  that 
the  same  may  be  obtained  by  the  said  Department;  and 
if  shall  be  unlawful  to  remove  any  such  dog  or  the 
body  of  any  such  animal  heretofore  mentioned  except 
as  herein  provided. 


Infectious  Diseases. 

Sec.  133.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician  to 
report  to  the  Department  of  Health,  in  .writing,  the  full 
name,  age  and  address  of  every  person  suffering  from 
any  one  of  the  infectious  diseases  included  in  the  list 
appended,  with  the  name  of  the  disease,  within  twenty- 
lour  hours  of  the  time  when  the  ease  is  first  seen: 


A. — Contagious  (very  readily  communicable)  :  Measles, 
rubella  (rotheln),  scarlet  fever,  small-pox,  varicella 
(chicken-pox),  typhus  fever,  relapsing  fever. 

B. — Conwiunicahle :  Diphtheria  (croup),  typhoid 
fever,  Asiatic  cholera,  tuberculosis  (of  any  organ), 
plague,  tetanus,  anthrax,  glanders,  epidemic  cerebro- 
spinal meningitis,  leprosy,  infectious  diseases  of  the  eye 
(trachoma,  suppurative  conjunctivitis),  puerperal  sep- 
ticaemia, erysipelas,  whooping  cough. 

C. — Indirectly  Communicable  (through  intermediary 
host) :     Yellow  fever,  malarial  fever. 

Note.— In  this  provisional  classification  of  the  infectious  diseases,  arranged 
for  practical  purposes,  the  most  readily  communicable  of  these  diseases,  em- 
bracing the  exanthemata  and  typhus  fever,  have  been  placed  in  a  group  by 


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themselves  and  called  contagious.  This  Laa  been  done  with  a  view  to  empha- 
sizing a  distinction,  which  i.s  not  only  of  scientific  signifloance,  but  of  practical 
importance,  in  dealing  with  the  sanitary  features  of  adiniiiistration.  ThlH 
distinction  is  furthermore  of  importance  because  it  avoids  the  mimmderHtand- 
ing  and  alarm  frequently  cau.-ed  by  including  in  the  same  class  the  very 
readily  communicable  diseases  (such  as  small-pox),  and  the  nmch  less  cora- 
nmnicable  diseases  (such  as  tuberculosis),  which  require  very  different  sanitary 
measures  for  their  control. 


Sec.  134.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Commissioners 
or  managers  or  the  principal,  superintendent,  or  physi- 
cian, of  each  and  every  public  institution  or  dispensary, 
in  this  city,  to  report  to  the  Department  of  Health,  in 
writing,  the  full  name,  age  and  address  of  any  person 
suffering  from  any  one  of  the  infectious  diseases  in- 
cluded in  the  list  appended,  with  the  name  of  the  disease, 
within  twenty -four  hours  of  the  time  when  the  case  ia 
first  seen: 


A. — Communica'ble :  Influenza,  lobar  pneumonia,  bron- 
cho-pneumonia, infectious  diseases  of  the  gastro-intes- 
tinal  canal  (dysentery,  cholera  morbus,  cholera  infan- 
tum, summer  diarrhoeas  of  infants). 

B. — Parasitic  Diseases  of  the  Ski^i:  Scabies,  tinea 
tonsurans,  impetigo  (contagious),  favus. 


Note.— In  this  list  of  diseases  reporting  is  leciuired  by  the  Department  of 
Health  ill  order  that  data  may  be  obtained  for  general  and  special  investiga- 
tion of  the  modes  and  sources  of  infection  and  as  to  the  prevalence  and  dis- 
tribution of  these  diseases.  The  Department  of  Health  does  not  purpose  to  ex- 
ercise a  sanitary  surveillance  in  these  cases,  but  desires  information  with  a 
view  to  the  ultimate  lemoval  or  improvement  in  the  conditions  which  now 
foster  them.  Notification  is  required  in  certain  of  these  diseases  because  of 
the  liability  to  theii-  extension  among  the  children  in  schools. 


5(5  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

Sec.  135.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician  to 
report  forthwith,  in  writing,  to  the  Department  of 
Health,  the  death  of  every  person  who  dies  from,  or 
while  suffering  with,  any  infectious  disease,  and  to  state 
in  such  report  the  specific  name  and  type  of  such  dis- 


Sec.  136.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  keeper  of  any 
boarding  house  or  lodging  house,  and  the  proprietor  of 
every  lodging  house  or  hotel,  to  report  forthwith  to  the 
Department  of  Health  all  the  known  facts  in  regard  to 
any  person  ill,  in  any  house  or  hotel  under  his  or  her 
charge,  and  suffering  from  any  one  of  the  following  in- 
fectious diseases:  measles,  diphtheria  (croup),  scarlet 
fever,  small-pox,  chicken-pox,  epidemic  cholera,  typhus 
fever,  rubella    (rotheln),  plague  and  whooping  cough. 


Sec.  137.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  having 
knowledge  of  the  existence  of  any  person  afflicted  with 
any  one  of  the  following  infectious  diseases:  measles, 
diphtheria  ( croup ) ,  scarlet  fever,  small-pox,  chicken-pox, 
epidemic  cliolera,  typhus  fever,  rubella  (rotheln),  plague 
and  whooping  cough,  who  he  has  reason  to  think  re- 
quires the  attention  of  the  Department  of  Health,  to  at 
once  report  to  the  Department  all  facts  in  regard  to  the 
disease;  and  no  person  shall  interfere  with  or  obstruct 
the  entrance,  inspection  or  examination  of  any  building 
or  house,  or  the  occupants  thereof,  by  the  inspectors  and 
officers  of  this  Department,  when  any  case  of  one  of  the 
infectious  diseases  above  specified  has  been  reported  as 
existing  in  such  house  or  dwelling;   nor  shall  any  per- 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  67 

son  interfoi'G  with  or  obstruct,  nmtilate  or  tear  down 
any  notices  of  this  Department  posted  in  or  on  any 
premises  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

Sec.  138.  It  sliall  be  the  duty  of  the  commissioners  or 
managers,  or  the  principal,  superintendent  or  physician 
of  each  and  ever}'  public  or  private  institution  or  dis- 
pensary in  this  city  to  report  to  the  Department  of 
Health,  in  writing,  or  to  cause  such  report  to  be  made  by 
some  proper  and  competent  person,  the  name,  age,  .sex, 
occupation  and  hatest  address  of  every  person  attiicted 
with  tuberculosis,  who  is  in  their  care  or  who  has  come 
under  their  observation,  within  one  w^eek  of  such  time. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  sick  with  this  dis- 
ease and  of  every  person  in  attendance  upon  any  one  sick 
with  this  disease,  and  of  the  authorities  of  public  and 
private  institutions  or  dispensaries,  to  observe  and  en- 
force all  the  sanitary  rules  and  regulations  of  the  Board 
of  Health  for  preventing  the  spread  of  pulmonary  tu- 
berculosis. 

Sec.  139.  Whenever  an  Inspector  of  this  Department 
shall  report  in  writing  that  any  person  is  sick  of  any 
infectious  disease,  under  such  circumstances  that  the 
continuance  of  such  sick  person  in  the  place  where  he  or 
she  may  be  is  dangerous  to  the  lives  of  other  persons 
residing  in  the  neighborhood,  the  Sanitary  Superintend- 
ent, an  Assistant  Sanitary  Superintendent,  or  the  Chief 
Inspector  of  the  Division  of  Contagious  Diseases,  upon 
the  report  of  a  Medical  Inspector  of  the  Department, 
may  cause  the  removal  of  such  sick  person  to  one  of  the 
hospitals  under  the  charge  of  this  Department  or  to  a 
Hospital  delegated  by  the  Board  of  Health. 


58  THE    SATs^ITAEY    CODE. 

Sec.  140.  In  every  public  hospital  and  dispensary  in 
the  City  of  New  York  there  shall  be  provided  and  main- 
tained a  suitable  room  or  rooms  for  the  temporary  isola- 
tion of  persons  suffering  from  any  of  the  following  in- 
fectious diseases:  measks,  diphtheria  (croup),  scarlet 
fever,  small-pox,  chicken-pOx,  epidemic  cholera,  typhus 
fever,  rubella  (rotheln),  plague  and  whooping  cough:  and 
such  persons  shall  immediately  be  separated  from  other 
persons  at  such  dispensary  or  hospital.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  physician  or  physicians,  and  of  the  officers 
and  managers  of  every  hospital  or  dispensary,  to  cause 
a  report  to  be  immediately  made  to  the  Department 
of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York  of  ev^ry  person 
afflicted  with  any  one  of  the  infectious  diseases  herein 
specified  who  comes  to  their  knowledge,  and  to  have  such 
persons  properly  isolated  from  other  persons. 

Sec.  1-il.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  undertaker 
having  notice  of  the  death  of  any  person  within  the  City 
of  Xew  York  of  small-pox,  dij)htheria  (croup),  scarlet 
fever,  yellow  fever,  typhus  fever,  plague,  Asiatic  cholera, 
measles,  or  any  other  infectious  disease  dangerous  to  the 
general  health  of  the  community,  or  of  the  bringing  of 
the  dead  body  of  any  person  who  has  died  of  any  such  dis- 
ease into  such  city,  to  give  immediate  notice  thereof  to 
this  Department.  No  person  shall  retain  or  expose,  or 
assist  in  the  retention  or  exposure  of  the  dead  body  of 
any  such  person  except  in  a  coffin  or  casket  properly 
sealed;  nor  shall  he  allow  any  such  body  to  be  placed  in 
any  coffin  or  casket  unless  the  body  has  been  wrapped  in 
a  sheet  saturated  with  a  proper  disinfecting  solution 
and  the  coffin  or  casket  shall  then  be  immediately  and 
permanently  sealed.  No  undertaker  shall  assist  in  the 
public  or  church  funeral  of  any  such  person.     No  under- 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  69 

taker  shall  use,  or  cause  or  allow  to  be  used,  at  any 
funeral,  or  in  any  room  where  the  dead  body  of  any 
person  shall  be,  any  draperies,  decorations,  rugs  or  car- 
pets, belonging  to  or  furnished  by  him  or  under  hi;^ 
direction. 

Sec.  142.  A  public  or  church  funeral  sliall  not  be  licid 
of  any  person  who  has  died  of  small-pox,  diphtlieria 
(croup),  scarlet  fever,  yellow  fever,  typhus  fever,  Asiatic 
cholera, measles  or  plague;  but  the  funeral  of  such  person 
shall  be  private,  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  invite,  or 
permit  at  the  funeral  of  any  person  who  has  died  of  any 
one  of  the  above  diseases,  or  of  any  infectious  disease, 
or  at  any  services  connected  therewith,  any  person  whose 
attendance  is  not  necessary,  or  to  whom  there  is  danger 
of  contagion  thereby. 

Sec.  143.  No  person  shall  within  this  city,  without  a 
permit  from  the  Board  of  Health,  carry,  remove,  or 
cause  or  permit  to  be  carried  or  removed,  any  person  sick 
Avith  any  infectious  disease,  or  remove  or  cause  to  be 
removed,  any  such  person  from  any  building  or  vessel 
to  any  other  building  or  vessel  or  to  the  shore,  or  to 
or  from  any  vehicle  in  any  part  of  the  city.  Nor  sball 
any  person,  by  any  exposure  of  any  individual  sick 
of  any  infectious  disease,  or  of  the  body  of  such  person, 
or  by  any  negligent  act  connected  therewith,  or  in  re- 
spect of  the  care  or  custody  thereof,  or  by  a  needless  ex- 
posure of  himself,  cause  or  contribute  to,  or  promote  the 
spread  of  disease  from  any  such  person,  or  from  any 
dead  body. 

Sec.  144.  Every  owTier,  lessee,  tenant  and  occupant 
of  any  dwelling  or  apartment  in  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  forthwith  report  to  the  Department  of  Health  in 
writing  the  removal  of  any  person  from  such  dwelling 


60  THE    SAlSriTARY    CODE. 

cr  apartment  who  shall  be  suffering  from  any  of  the 
following  infectious  diseases:  measles,  diphtheria 
(croup),  scarlet  fever,  small-pox,  chicken-pox,  epidemic 
cholera,  typhus  fever,  rubella  (rotheln).  plague,  whoop- 
ing cough  or  tuberculosis   (of  any  organ). 

Sec.  145.  No  principal  or  superintendent  of  any  school, 
and  no  parent,  master  or  custodian  of  any  child  or  minor 
(having  the  power  and  authority  to  prevent)  shall  per- 
mit any  child  or  minor  having  scarlet  fever,  diphtheria, 
(croup),  small-pox  or  any  dangerous, infectious  or  conta- 
gious disease,  or  any  child  in  any  family  in  which  any 
such  disease  exists  or  has  recently  existed,  to  attend  any 
public  or  private  school  until  the  Board  of  Health  shall 
have  given  its  permission  therefor,  nor  in  any  manner  to 
be  unnecessarily  exposed,  or  to  needlessly  expose  any 
other  person  to  the  taking  or  to  the  infection  of  any 
contagious  disease. 

Disinfection. 

Sec.  146.  Adequate  disinfection  or  cleansing  and  reno- 
vation of  premises,  furniture  and  belongings,  deemed  by 
the  Department  of  Health  to  be  infected  by  contagious 
or  communicable  diseases,  shall  immediately  follow  the 
recovery,  death  or  removal  of  the  person  suffering  from 
such  disease,  and  such  disinfection  or  cleansing  and 
renovation  shall  be  performed  by  the  owner  or  occupant 
of  said  premises  when  ordered  by  the  Board  of  Health. 

Vaccination,  Antitoxin. 

See.  147.  Every  person,  being  the  parent  or  guardian, 
or  having  the  care,  custody,  or  control  of  any  minor,  or 
other  individual,  shall  (to  the  extent  of  any  means, 
power  and  authority  of  said  parent,  guardian,  or  other 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  61 

person  that  could  properly  be  used  or  exerted  for  such 
purpose)  cause  and  procure  such  minor  or  individual  to 
be  so  promptly,  frequently,  and  eflfectively  vaccinated, 
that  such  minor  or  individual  shall  not  take,  or  be  lia- 
ble to  take  the  small-pox. 

Sec.  148.  That  no  preparation  of  diphtheria  antitoxin 
shall  be  ofl'ered  or  exposed  for  sale  in  tliis  city  un- 
less the  receptacle  containing  such  preparation  bear  a 
label  on  which  is  placed  the  name  and  the  address  of 
the  producer,  and  upon  such  label,  or  upon  a  circular 
accompanying  such  receptacle  and  inclosed  with  it  in  a 
sealed  package,  shall  be  printed  or  written  the  date  of 
production  and  the  value  of  the  contents  in  antitoxin, 
as  measured  by  some  generally  recognized  standard. 

Vessels  and  Seamen. 

Sec.  149.  The  master,  chief  officer,  and  consignee, 
of  every  vessel  not  being  in  quarantine,  or  within 
quarantine  limits,  but  being  within  one-fourth  of  a 
mile  of  any  dock,  wharf,  pier,  or  building  of  said  city, 
shall  daily  report  to  the  Department  of  Health,  or 
cause  to  be  reported,  in  writing,  the  particulars,  and 
shall  therein  state  the  name,  disease,  and  condition  of 
any  person  being  in  or  on  such  vessel,  and  sick  of  any 
infectious  disease. 

.  Sec.  150.  The  keepers,  lessees,  tenants,  and  owners  of 
every  boarding  house  and  lodging  house  shall  forthwith 
notify  the  Department  of  Health  of  the  fact  of  any  sea- 
faring man  or  person  lately  from  any  vessel  li-^ing  taken 
sick  at  such  house,  and  shall  in  such  notice  state  where 
such  sick  person  may  be  found,  and  from  what  vessel, 


62  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

and  when  he  came,  to  the  best  of  the  knowledge  of  the 
person  or  persons  giving  such  notice. 

Sec.  151.  Every  master  and  chief  officer  of  any  vessel, 
and  every  physician  of,  or  who  practiced  on,  any  vessel 
which  shall  arrive  in  the  port  of  New  York  from  any 
other  port,  shall  at  once  report  to  this  Department  any 
facts  connected  with  any  person  or  thing  on  said  vessel, 
or  that  came  thereon,  which  he  has  reason  to  think  may 
endanger  the  public  health  of  this  city;  and  he  shall 
report  the  facts  as  to  any  person  being  or  having  been 
sick  thereon,  of  an  infectious  disease,  and  as  to  there  be- 
ing or  having  been,  during  the  voyage  or  since  her  ar- 
rival, any  infected  person  or  articles  thereon. 

Sec.  152.  No  master,  charterer,  owner,  part  owner  or 
consignee  of  any  vessel,  or  any  other  person,  shall  bring 
to  any  dock,  pier,  wharf,  or  building  within  one  thou- 
sand feet  thereof,  in  said  city,  or  unload  at  any  dock, 
building,  or  pier  therein,  or  have  on  storage  in  the  built- 
up  portions  of  said  city,  any  skins,  hides,  rags,  or  similar 
articles  or  materials  having  been  brought  from  any  for- 
eign country  or  any  infected  place,  or  from  any  points 
south  of  Norfolk,  Virginia,  without  or  otherwise  than  ac- 
cording to  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health,  and  no 
person  shall  sell,  exchange,  remove,  or  in  any  way  ex- 
pose any  straw,  bedding  or  other  articles  used  by 
immigrants  upon  any  vessel  bringing  immigrants  to 
this  port,  until  it  has  been  adequately  and  properly 
cleansed  or  disinfected;  and  all  straw,  bedding  or  other 
articles  that  have  been  exposed  on  any  vessel  to  con- 
tagion or  infection  of  any  contagious  disease,  or  have 
been  or  are  liable  to  communicate  such  disease,  shall  be 
destroyed  by  fire  on  said  vessel. 


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Sec.  153.  No  owner,  agent,  or  consignee  of  any  vessel, 
or  cargo,  and  no  officer  of  any  vessel  (in  respect  of 
either  of  which  vessel  or  cargo  a  permit,  according  to 
any  law,  ordinance,  or  regulation  shall  or  should  have 
been  obtained  to  pass  quarantine,  or  to  come  up  to  the 
water-front  of  the  City  of  New  York)  shall  unload,  or 
land,  or  cause  to  be  unladen  or  landed,  such  cargo,  or 
any  part  thereof,  in  said  city,  without  having  first  re- 
ceived a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health  so  to  do. 

Sec.  154.  No  captain,  officer,  consignee,  owner  or  other 
person  in  charge  of  any  vessel  (or  having  right  and 
authority  to  prevent  the  same)  shall  remove  or  aid  in 
removing  from  any  vessel  to  the  shore  (save  as  legally 
authorized  by  the  Health  Officer  of  the  port  of  New 
York,  and  into  quarantine  grounds  and  buildings  only) 
any  person  sick  of,  or  person  that  has  been  exposed  to, 
and  is  liable  very  so9n  to  develop  any  infectious  disease, 
or  so  remove  or  aid  in  removing  any  articles  that  may 
have  been  exposed  to  the  contagion  of  any  such  disease, 
except  in  accordance  with  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health.  \ 

Sec.  155.  No  master,  charterer,  consignee,  or  other 
person  shall  order,  bring  or  allow  (having  power  and 
authority  to  prevent  the  same)  any  vessel  or  person,  or 
article  therefrom,  from  any  infected  port,  or  any  vessel, 
or  person  or  article  therefrom,  liable  to  quarantine,  ac- 
cording to  the  ninth  section  of  the  three  hundred  and 
fifty-eighth  chapter  of  the  Laws  of  1863  (or  under  any 
other  laws,  and  whether  such  quarantine  has  been  made 
or  suffered  or  not),  to  come  or  be  brought  to  any  point 
nearer  than  three  hundred  yards  from  any  dock  or  pier, 
or  to  any  building  in  said  city  without  or  otherwise  than 


64  THE    SANITAEY   CODE. 

according  to  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health.  Nor 
shall  any  vessel,  or  person  or  thing  therein  or  therefrom, 
having  been  in  quarantine,  come  or  be  brought  within 
the  last-named  distance  of  any  last-named  place,  with- 
out the  permit  or  assent  of  this  Board. 

Sec.  156.  Xo  person  shall  bring  into  this  city  from 
any  infected  place,  or  land,  or  take  therein,  from  any 
vessel  lately  from  an  infected  port,  or  from  any  vessel 
or  building  in  which  had  lately  been  any  person  sick 
of  an  infectious  disease,  any  article  or  person  whatso- 
ever, nor  shall  any  such  person  land  or  come  into  said 
city,  without  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health;  and  it 
shall  be  no  excuse  that  such  person  or  article  so  offend- 
ing, or  the  occasion  of  offense,  has  passed  through  quar- 
antine, or  has  a  permit  from  any  other  source  than  this 
Board. 

Sec.  157.  Ko  owner,  part  owner,  charterer,  agent,  or 
consignee  of  any  vessel,  or  any  officer  or  person  having 
charge  or  control  of  the  same,  shall  allow  to  be  cast 
therefrom,  and  no  person  shall  cast  therefrom,  into  any 
public  waters  of  the  City  of  New  York,  any  straw,  bed- 
ding, clothing,  or  other  substance. 

Marriages,  Births  and  Deaths. 

Sec.  158.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clergymen,  mag- 
istrates and  other  persons  who  perform  the  marriage 
ceremony  in  the  City  of  New  York,  to  keep  a  registry  of 
the  marriages  celebrated  by  them,  which  shall  contain, 
as  near  as  the  same  can  be  ascertained,  the  place  and 
date  of  marriage,  age,  color,  name  and  surname  of  the 
parties  married,  birthplace,  residence,  number  of  mar- 


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riage  and  condition  of  each,  whether  single,  widowed, 
or  divorced,  the  occupation  of  the  gi'oom,  maiden  name 
of  the  bride  if  a  widow,  the  names  of  the  parents  of 
each  and  the  maiden  name  of  the  mother  of  each.  And 
every  person  authorized  by  law  to  perform  the  ceremony 
of  marriage  shall  register  his  or  her  name  and  address  in 
the  office  of  the  Bureau  of  Records. 


Sec.  159.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  parents  of  any 
child  born  in  said  city  (and  if  there  be  no  parent  alive 
that  has  made  such  report,  then  of  the  next  of  kin  of 
said  child  born),  and  of  every  person  present  at  such 
birth,  within  ten  days  after  such  birth,  to  report  to  the 
Department  of  Health,  in  writing,  as  far  as  known,  the 
date,  borough  and  street  number  of  said  birth,  and  the 
name,  sex  and  color  of  such  child  born,  and  the  names, 
residence,  birthplace  and  age  of  the  parents,  the  occupa- 
tion of  the  father  and  the  maiden  name  of  the  mother. 
It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  physicians  and  professional 
midwives  to  keep  a  registry  of  the  several  births  in 
which  they  have  assisted  professionally,  which  shall 
contain,  as  near  as  the  same  can  be  ascertained,  the 
time  and  place  of  such  birth,  name,  sex  and  color  of  the 
child,  the  name,  residence,  birthplace,  and  age  of  the 
parents,  the  occupation  of  the  father  and  the  maiden 
name  of  the  mother,  and  to  report  the  same  within  ten 
days  to  the  Department  of  Health. 

Sec.  160.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  next  of  kin  of 
any  person  deceased,  and  of  each  person  being  with 
such  deceased  person  at  his  or  her  death,  to  report, 
in  writing,  to  the  Department  of  Health,  within  five 
days    after    such    death,    the    age,    color,    nativity,    last 


66  THE    SANITAEY    CODE. 

occupation  and  cause  of  death  of  such  deceased  per- 
son and  the  place  of  such  person's  death  and  last 
residence.  Physicians  who  have  attended  deceased 
persons  in  their  last  illness  shall  make  and  preserve  a 
registry  of  such  death,  stating  the  cause  thereof  and 
specifying  the  date,  hour,  place  and  street  number  of 
such  death,  and  shall,  in  the  report  of  the  death  of  such 
persons,  specify,  as  near  as  the  same  can  be  ascertained, 
the  date  of  death,  sex,  name  and  surname,  age,  occupa- 
tion, term  of  residence  in  said  city,  place  of  nativity, 
condition  of  life,  whether  single,  married,  widowed 
or  divorced,  color,  last  place  of  residence,  the  names  and 
birthplaces  of  the  parents,  the  maiden  name  of  the  mother, 
and  the  cause  of  death  of  such  deceased  persons  and  the 
coroners  of  the  city,  in  such  cases  as  an  inquest  may 
have  been  held,  shall,  in  their  certificates,  conform  to  the 
requirements  of  this  section. 

Every  physician  in  said  city  shall  register  his  or  her 
name  and  address  in  the  office  of  the  Bureau  of  Records 
of  said  Department. 

Sec.  161.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  re- 
quired to  make  or  keep  a  registry  of  births,  marriages 
or  deaths,  to  present  to  the  Bureau  of  Records,  a  copy  of 
such  registry  signed  by  such  parson,  within  ten  days 
after  the  birth  or  marriage,  and  within  thirty-six 
hours,  after  the  death  of  any  person  to  whom  such 
registry  may  or  should  relate,  Which  shall  thereupon  be 
placed  on  file  in  the  said  Bureau. 

Sec.  162.  No  person  shall  make,  prepare,  deliver  or 
issue  any  false  certificate,  statement  or  report  of  a  birth, 
marriage  or  death,  or  any  such  certificate,  statement  or 


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report,  which  is  not  in  accordance  with  the  facts  of  the 
birth,  marriage  or  death;  all  certificates,  statements  and 
reports  of  births,  marriages  or  deaths,  sliall  be  signed 
by  the  person  purporting  to  make  the  same,  and  no  per- 
son shall  sign  or  forge  the  name  of  another  to  any  sucli 
certificate,  statement  or  report. 

Transportation  of  Dead  Bodies. 
Sec.  1G3.  That  no  captain,  agent,  or  person  having 
charge  of  or  attached  to  any  ferry-boat,  sailing,  or  other 
vessel,  nor  any  person  in  charge  of  any  car,  stage,  or 
other  vehicle,  or  public  or  private  conveyance,  shall  con- 
vey or  alloAV  to  be  conveyed  thereon  or  by  any  means 
aforesaid,  nor  shall  any  person  convey  or  allow  to  be 
carried  or  conveyed,  in  any  manner,  from,  through,  into 
or  within  the  City  of  New  York,  the  dead  body  of  any 
human  being,  or  any  part  thereof,  without  a  permit 
therefor  from  the  Board  of  Health.  And  the  proper  cou- 
pon for  that  purpose  attached  to  any  such  permit,  when 
issued,  shall  be  preserved  and  returned  to  this  Depart- 
ment, as  its  regulations  may  require,  by  the  proper  olli- 
cer  or  person  on  each  boat  or  vessel,  and  by  the  proper 
person  in  charge  of  any  train  of  cars  or  vehicle  on  which 
any  such  body  may  be  carried  from  said  city.  Provided, 
however,  that  the  same  effect  shall  be  given,  under  this 
section,  to  transit  permits  issued  severally  by  Boards  of 
Health  of  cities,  towns  or  villages  in  the  State  of  New 
York,  or  by  Boards  of  Health  that  may  be  hereafter 
organized,  pursuant  to  Laws  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
or  when  issued  by  the  Health  Officer  of  any  such  city, 
town  or  village,  as  to  a  transit  permit  issued  from  this 
Board,  when  the  death  of  the  person  nanu-d  in  thi> 
permit  shall  have  occurred  in  the  city,  town  or  village, 
from  which  such  permit  shall  have  been  issued. 


68  THE    SA.NITAKY    CODE. 

And  provided  that  the  same  effect  shall  be  given,  un- 
der this  section,  to  a  transit  permit  issued  under  the 
laws  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  as  to  a  transit  permit 
issued  from  this  Board;  subject,  nevertheless,  in 
every  ease  to  all  the  care,  precautions  and  diligence 
prescribed  by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  this  Depart- 
ment. And  provided,  that  the  same  effect  be  given,  un- 
der this  section,  to  a  transit  permit  issued  under  the 
laws  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  as  to  a  transit  permit 
from  this  Board;  subject,  nevertheless,  in  every 
case,  to  all  the  care,  precautions  and  diligence  prescribed 
by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  this  Department. 

Sec.  164.  ISTo  person  shall  retain,  expose,  or  allow  to 
be  retained  or  exposed,  the  dead  body  of  any  human  be- 
ing to  the  peril  or  prejudice  of  the  life  or  health  of  any 
person. 

Sec.  165.  No  person  shall  allow  to  be  retained  un- 
buried  the  dead  bodj^  of  any  human  being  for  a  longer 
time  than  four  days  or  where  death  has  resulted  from 
small-pox,  diphtheria  (croup),  scarlet  fever,  yellow 
fever,  typhus  fever,  plagiie,  Asiatic  cholera  or  measles, 
for  a  longer  time  than  twenty-four  hours,  after  death 
of  such  person,  without  a  permit  from  the  Sanitary 
Superintendent  or  an  Assistant  Sanitary  Superintend- 
ent, which  permit  shall  specify  the  length  of  time  during 
which  such  body  may  be  retained  unburied.  This  ordi- 
nance shall  not  apply  to  bodies  retained  in  any  public 
morgue  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

Sec.  166.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  who  has 
discovered  or  seen  the  body  of  a  dead  human  being,  or 
any  part  thereof   (if  there  is  reason  for  such  person  to 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  GO 

think  that  the  fact  of  the  death,  or  the  place  of  such 
body,  or  part  thereof,  is  not  publicly  known),  to  im- 
mediately communicate  to  the  Bureau  of  Records  the 
fact  of  such  discovery  of  such  body,  the  place  where,  and 
time  when,  the  same  was  discovered  or  seen,  and  where 
the  same  is  or  may  be  found,  and  any  facts  known  by 
which  said  body  may  be  identified,  or  the  cause  of 
death  ascertained. 

Cemeteries. 

Sec.  167.  No  interment  of  the  dead  body  of  any  hu- 
man being,  or  disposition  thereof  in  any  tomb,  vault, 
crematory,  or  cemetery,  shall  be  made  within  the  City 
of  New  York,  without  a  permit  therefor  granted  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  nor  otherwise  than  in  accordance  there- 
with, and  said  dead  body  shall  be  placed  in  a  metallic 
or  tin-lined  box,  or  a  box  so  constructed  as  to  prevent 
the  issuance  of  any  liquids  therefrom;  and  no  sexton 
or  other  person  shall  assist  in,  or  assent  to,  or  allow 
any  such  interment,  or  aid  or  assist  about  preparing  any 
grave  or  place  of  deposit  for  any  such  body,  or  assist  in 
the  cremation  of  the  same,  for  which  such  permit  has  not 
been  given  authorizing  the  same.  And  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  every  person  who  shall  receive  any  such  permit, 
to  preserve  and  to  return  the  same  to  this  Department, 
as  its  regulations  may  require. 

Sec.  1G8.  No  new  crematory,  burying-ground,  ceme- 
tery, tomb,  or  vault  for  dead  human  bodies  shall  be 
established,  nor  shall  the  remains  of  any  dead  body  be 
placed  in  any  existing  burying-ground,  vault,  tomb,  or 
cemetery  in  the  City  of  New  York,  nor  any  of  said  re- 
ceptacles be  opened,  exposed,  or  disturb:xl,  except  ac- 
cording to  the  terms  of  a  permit  therefor  given  by  the 


70  THE    SAIflTAEY    CODE. 

Coaid  of  Health,  and  eveiy  bodj'  buried  iu  any  such 
place  shall  be  buried  to  the  depth  of  six  feet  below  the 
surface  of  the  ground,  and  four  feet  below  any  closely 
adjacent  street,  except  that  in  the  Borough  of  Queens 
a  body  may  be  buried  to  the  depth  of  three  feet  below 
the  surface  of  the  ground. 

No  food,  beverage  or  other  article  for  human  consump- 
tion shall  be  sold,  exposed  or  offered  for  sale  in  any 
cemetery  or  burying-ground  ^Aithin  the  City  of  New 
York. 

Sec.  169.  Every  person  who  acts  as  a  sexton  or  un- 
dertaker in  the  City  of  New  York,  or  has  the  charge 
or  care  of  any  crematory,  vault,  tomb,  burying-gTOund, 
or  cemetery  for  the  reception  of  the  dead,  or  where  the 
bodies  of  any  human  beings  are  deposited,  shall  cause 
his  or  her  name  and  residence,  and  the  nature  Of  his  or 
her  charge  and  duties,  to  be  registered  with  this  De- 
partment. 

Sec.  170.  Every  sexton  and  other  person  having 
charge  of  any  crematory,  burying-ground,  cemetery, 
tomb  or  vault  in  the  City  of  New  York,  shall,  before 
twelve  o'clock  on  Monday  of  each  week,  make  return  to 
this  Department  of  the  bodies  and  persons  buried  or 
cremated  since  their  last  return,  and  in  such  form,  and 
specifying  such  particulars,  as  the  special  regulations  of 
this  Department  shall  require. 

Coroners. 

Sec.  171.  At  least  two  hours  before  the  holding  of 
any  inquest  mthin  the  City  of  New  York  upon  a  dead 
body,  the  coroner  who  has  been  notified  of  any  death,  or 
who  may  propose  or  intend  to  hold  such  inquest,  shall 
transmit  and  cause  to  be  delivered  to  the   Bureau  of 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  71 

Records   written   notice   containing  the   following  facts 
so  far  as  known  or  reported  to  any  such  coroner: 

1.  The  fact  of  any  such  call  for  the  holding  of  an  in- 
quest, and  by  whom  made,  and  when  and  from  whom 
received  by  the  coroner. 

2.  The  place  (giving  the  street  and  street  number, 
and  if  there  be  none,  then  other  particulars)  where  the 
body  is. 

3.  What  is  reported  to  be  the  cause  of  the  death. 

4.  "When  and  where  the  death  took  place,  and  where 
the  body  has  since  been. 

5.  When  and  where  he  proposes  to  hold  the  inquest, 
giving  the  street,  the  street  number  (or  otherwise  suffi- 
ciently designating  such  place),  and  the  hour. 

6.  What  physician,  or  physicians,  or  other  profes- 
sional person  last  attended  such  deceased  person,  or  at- 
tended such  person  within  forty-eight  hours  of  such 
decease. 

At  any  time  after  the  commencement  of  any  inquest, 
the  coroner  holding  or  who  should  hold,  or  who  held 
such  inquest,  shall  within  twelve  hours  after  the  receipt 
of  a  written  request  so  to  do  from  the  Sanitary  Super- 
intendent, answer  in  ^ATiting  such  of  the  following  or 
such  other  questions  as  may  be  propounded  to  him  by 
the  said  Sanitary  Superintendent  to  the  best  of  his 
knowledge,  information,  and  belief. 

Report  of  Coroner  (here  insert  Coroner's  name)  upon 
the  body  of  (here  fill  in  name  or  description  of  de- 
ceased), on  the  (here  fill  in  year,  month,  and  day),  at 
(here  mention  street  and  number). 

1.  ^^Hiat  was  the  age,  sex,  and  last  occupation,  resi- 
dence, and  nativity  of  such  deceased  person? 


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2.  At  what  house  or  place,  and  in  or  near  what  street 
or  avenue,  at  what  number  therein  did  such  deceased 
person  die  ? 

3.  If  such  deceased  person  died  of  any  poison,  when 
and  where  was  the  same  administered,  and  what  was  the 
kind  of  poison? 

4.  If  such  deceased  person  died  of  violence,  when  and 
Avhere  was  the  same  committed,  and  upon  what  part  of 
the  body  and  organs,  and  of  what  did  it  consist? 

5.  ^  If  such  deceased  person  died  of  any  other  cause, 
state  such  cause,  and  when  and  where  the  cause  took 
effect  upon  or  was  received  by  the  deceased? 

6.  Who  was  last  in  care  of  or  with  such  deceased 
person,  and  at  what  place  and  at  what  time  before 
death,  and  when,  giving  the  full  name  and  residence  of 
each  such  person? 

7.  What  were  the  name  and  residence  of  the  physician 
and  persons  who  last  attended,  and  of  each  physician 
and  person  who  within  forty-eight  hours  of  such  death 
attended  upon  such  deceased  person,  and  where  did  he  so 
attend;  and  whether  said  physician  was  notified  of  or 
attended  and  was  examined  at  such  inquest? 

8.  The  times,  places,  and  dates,  of  holding  the  in- 
quest, and  the  names  and  residences  by  street  number  of 
the  jurors  and  witnesses  that  attended,  and  dates  of 
their  attendance,  and  when  and  where  the  body  of  the 
deceased  was  present  at  such  inquest? 

9.  Was  any  post-mortem  examination  made,  and  if 
so,  when,  where,  and  by  whom,  and  who  was  present 
thereat  ? 


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It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  coroners  in  said  city  to 
make  return  to  the  Bureau  of  Records  of  all  inquisitions 
by  them  taken,  except  when  by  law  such  'inquests  are 
required  to  be  filed  elsewhere,  and  such  return  shall  in- 
clude the  evidence  taken  on  such  inquest,  and  the  verdict 
of  the  jury,  and  the  full  names  and  residences  of  the 
several  jurymen. 

And  in  all  cases  where  tho  inquest  nia}'  he  icquired  by 
law  to  be  filed  elsewhere  such  coroner  shall  make  return 
to  said  Bureau  of  a  copy  of  such  inquest,  including  a 
copy  of  such  evidence  and  verdict;  and  all  such  returns 
shall  be  made  within  forty-eight  hours  after  the  holding 
of  any  and  every  inquest. 


Railroad  Cars. 

Sec.  172.  No  railroad  car  constructed  for  or  used  in 
carrying  passengers  for  hire  on  any  line  of  railroad, 
either  surface  or  elevated,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
except  cars  run  in  trains  and  entering  the  City  of  New 
York  from  without  the  limits  of  said  city,  shall  be 
used  with  cloth  or  cloth  cushions  on  the  seats  or  on  the 
backs  of  seats,  or  with  textile  fabrics  on  the  floor  thereof. 

Sec.  173.  Each  and  everj'-  car  used  upon  any  railroad 
in  the  City  of  New  York  for  the  carrying  of  passengers 
shall,  on  each  and  every  day  on  which  it  may  be  used, 
be  carefully  and  thoroughly  cleaned,  so  that  all  refuse, 
dirt  and  filth  are  removed  from  the  inside  of  said  car. 

Sec.  174.  No  person  shall  at  any  time  carry  or  convey 
in  or  upon  any  passenger  railroad  car,  nor  shall  any 
conductor  or  person  in  charge  of  any  such  railroad  car 


74  THE    SANITAEY    CODE. 

permit  or  allow  to  be  carried  or  conveyed  in  or  upon 
such  car,  except  on  the  front  platform  thereof,  any  soiled 
or  dii'ty  articles  of  clothing  or  bedding. 

Sec.  175.  Every  car  used  for  the  carrying  of  pas- 
sengers in  the  City  of  New  York  shall  be  constructed 
so  as  to  provide  and  secure  at  all  times  good,  adequate 
and  sufficient  ventilation. 

Sec  176.  Every  company,  corporation  or  person  oper- 
ating a  line  of  railroad  cars  for  the  carriage  of  pas- 
sengers for  hire  in  the  City  of  New  York  shall,  in  con- 
nection Avith  the  running  and  operation  of  cars  as 
aforesaid,  have  and  provide  closed  cars  to  be  run  on 
said  railroad;  and  at  all  times  shall  have,  provide  and 
operate  at  least  one  closed  car  in  every  four  cars  so 
operated  and  run  for  the  carriage  of  passengers  as 
aforesaid. 

Sec.  177.  No  conductor,  driver,  gTipman  or  motorman 
of  any  railroad  car  or  other  vehicle  running  on  tracks  in 
the  City  of  New  York  shall  permit,  allow  or  cause  the 
same  to  be  run,  pulled,  drawn  or  propelled  on  or  around 
anj-  curve  on  the  surface  of  any  public  street  or  avenue 
of  said  city  unless  the  means  and  appliances  by  which 
said  car  is  operated  and  controlled  are  of  such  character 
and  efficiency  that  the  movement  of  said  car  is  entirely 
and  at  all  times  under  absolute  control,  so  that  the  car 
can  be  stopped  at  will  at  any  point  of  said  curve,  and  be 
held  motionless  upon  it  or  be  moved  upon  it  or  around 
it  at  any  desired  rate  of  speed  less  than  the  maximum 
speed  of  operation;  and  no  person,  corporation,  super- 
intendent, or  other  person  who  is  interested  in  or  who 
owns  or  has  the  management  and  control  of  any  such 


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car  or  vehicle,  shall  permit  it  to  be  so  run,  pulled,  drawn 
or  propelled,  or  placed  in  service,  unless  properly  pro- 
vided with  means  and  appliances  as  aforesaid.  No  con- 
ductor, driver,  gripman  or  motorman  of  any  railroad 
car  or  other  vehicle  running  on  tracks  in  the  City  of 
jSTew  York,  shall  permit,  allow  or  cause  the  same  to  be 
nin,  pulled,  drawn  or  propelled  on  or  around  any  curve 
on  the  surface  of  any  public  street  or  avenue  at  a  rate 
of  speed  which  is  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  life;  and 
no  person,  corporation,  superintendent  or  other  person 
who  is  interested  in  or  who  owns  or  has  the  management 
and  control  of  any  siich  car  or  vehicle  shall  permit  it  to 
be  so  run,  pulled,  drawn  or  propelled. 


Spitting. 

Sec.  178.  Spitting  upon  the  sidewalk  of  any  public 
street,  avenue,  park,  public  square  or  place,  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any  hall  in  any  tene- 
ment house  -svhich  is  used  in  common  by  the  tenants 
thereof,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any  hall  or  office  in  any 
hotel  or  lodging-house  which  is  used  in  common  by  the 
guests  thereof,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any  theatre,  store, 
factory,  or  of  any  building  w^hich  is  used  in  common  by 
the  public,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any  ferryboat,  railroad 
car  or  other  public  conveyance,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any 
ferry  house,  depot  or  station,  or  upon  the  station  plat- 
form or  stairs  of  any  elevated  railroad  or  other  common 
carrier,  is  hereby  forbidden. 

The  corporations  or  persons  owning  or  having  the 
management  or  control  of  any  such  building,  store, 
factory,  ferryboat,  railroad  car  or  other  public  convey- 
ance, ferry  house,  depot  or  station,  station  platform  or 
stairs  of  any  elevated  railroad  or  other  common  carrier, 


76  THE    SAISTITAEY    CODE. 

are  hereby  required  to  keep  permanently  posted  in  each 
of  said  places  a  sufficient  number  of  notices  forbidding 
spitting  upon  the  floors  and  calling  attention  to  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section. 

The  corporations  or  persons  owning  or  having  the 
management  or  control  of  such  buildings,  stores,  fac- 
tories, ferryboats,  ferry  houses,  depots,  stations,  station 
platforms  or  stairs  of  any  elevated  railroad  or  other 
common  carrier  are  hereby  required  to  provide  sufficient 
and  proper  receptacles  for  expectoration,  and  also  to  pro- 
vide for  the  cleansing  and  disinfection  of  said  receptacles 
at  least  once  every  twenty-four  hours;  and  spitting  into 
the  street  from  the  cars,  stairs,  or  platforms  of  the 
elevated  railroads  is  hereby  forbidden. 

It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  every  corporation  or 
person  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cigars,  cigarettes 
or  tobacco,  or  conducting  the  business  of  printing  in  the 
City  of  Xew  York,  where  ten  or  more  persons  are  em- 
ployed on  the  premises,  to  provide  proper  receptacles 
for  expectoration.  Such  receptacles  are  to  be  in  pro- 
portion of  one  for  every  two  persons  so  employed,  and 
they  are  to  be  cleansed  and  disinfected  at  least  once 
every  twenty-four  hours. 

A  copy  of  the  preceding  paragraph  must  be  kept 
posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  every  factory  or  print- 
ing office  mentioned  therein. 


Barber  Shops. 

Sec.  179.  Every  barber  shop  in  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  be  conducted  in  accordance  with  regulations 
adopted  from  time  to  time  by  the  Board  of  Health.  A 
copy  of  such  regulations  must  be  posted  in  a  conspicuous 
place  in  every  such  barber  shop. 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  77 

Noise. 

Sec.  180.  No  person  owning,  occupyin/r^  or  having 
charge  of  any  building  or  premises,  shall  keep  or  allow 
thereon  or  therein  any  animal  or  bird,  which  shall  by 
noise  disturb  the  quiet  or  repose  of  any  person  therein 
or  In  the  vicinity,  to  the  detriment  of  the  life  or  health 
of  any  human  being. 


78  THE    SANITAEY    CODE. 

I,  Eugene  W.  Scheffek,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Health  of  the  Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  do  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  printed 
"Sanitary  Code,"  viz.:  from  page  1  to  77,  inclusive, 
consisting  of  180  sections,  is  a  true  transcript  from  the 
minutes  and  from  the  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
said  Board  of  Health,  and  is  a  true  Copy  of  the  Sanitary 
Code  and  of  the  original  ordinances  thereof,  now  in 
force,  and  of  the  amendments  thereto,  and  of  the  whole 
thereof,  and  that  the  same  are  now  in  full  force  and 
entitled  to  -  full  credence  as  such  ordinances,  and  were 
duly  adopted,  enacted,  published  and  confirmed  by  said 
Board  of  Health  agreeably  to  the  provisions  of  the  law 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  entitled,  "An  act  to  reor- 
ganize the  local  government  of  the  City  of  New  York," 
passed  April  30,  1873,  as  amended  by  an  act  entitled, 
"An  act  to  amend  chapter  335  of  the  Laws  of  1873/' 
passed  June  13,  1873,  and  to  the  provisions  of  chapter 
636  of  the  Laws  of  1874,  and  to  the  provisions  of  chap- 
ter 410;  Laws  of  1882,  and  to  the  provisions  of  chapter 
378,  Laws  of  1897,  and  to  the  provisions  of  chapter  466, 
Laws  of  1901.  ,-/ 


In  Witness  Wepi^eof,  I  Imve  hereunto  set  my  hand 
and  affixed  thelSeai^f -|^ey/aid  DepartmMit  of  Health 


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THE    SANITAUY    CODE.  79 


CHAPTER    13 


An  Act  to  Simplify  the  Proof  of  the  Siinilury  Code  in 
the  City  of  New  York. 

Passed  April  19,  1880;  three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  Neio  York,  represented  in 
Senate  and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  folloics: 

Sec.  1.  The  Sanitary  Code  adopted  and  declared  as 
such  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  Healtli 
Department  of  the  City  of  New  York,  held  in  the  city 
on  the  second  day  of  June,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  seventy-three,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  Sanitary 
Code  mentioned  and  described  in  section  eighty-two  of 
an  act  entitled,  "An  act  to  reorganize  the  local  govern- 
ment of  the  City  t)f  New  York,"  passed  April  thirtieth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-thrre,  and  in  all  courts 
of  justice  or  judicial  proceedings  proof  of  the  said  Sani- 
tary Code,  and  of  the  proceedings  of  such  Board  of 
Health,  in  relation  thereto,  by  the  production  of  the 
book  of  minutes  of  such  meeting  held  as  aforesaid,  or  a 
transcript  of  the  record  of  such  proceedings  duly  authen- 
ticated by  the  secretary  of  the  said  Board  of  Health, 
shall  be  held  and  taken  as  complete  and  valid  evidence 
of  the  said  Sanitary  Code,  its  due  adoption,  enactment 
and  iDublication ;  and  such  Sanitary  Code  shall  be 
deemed  in  full  force  and  operative  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  save  as  duly  modified  or  repealed  bv  tli.^  sai.l 
Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  elTect  immediately. 


80  THE    SANITAEY    CODE. 

CHAPTER  378,  LAWS  OF  1897. 

SANITARY  CODE. 

Sec,  1172.  The  sanitary  code  adopted  and  declared 
as  such  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  the 
Health  Department  of  the  City  of  New  York,  held  in 
the  city  as  formerly  constituted  and  bounded  on  the 
second  day  of  June,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy- 
three,  as  amended  in  accordance  with  law,  is  hereby 
declared  to  be  binding  and  in  force  in  the  city  consti- 
tuted by  this  act,  and  shall  continue  to  be  so  binding 
and  in  force,  except  as  the  same  may,  from  time  to 
time,  be  revised,  altered,  amended  and  annulled  by  the 
Board  of  Health  as  herein  provided.  And  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  said  board,  immediately  upon  organization  under 
this  act,  to  cause  to  be  conformed  to  this  title  tlie  sani- 
tary code  of  ordinances,  adopted  by  the  existing  Depart- 
ment of  Health,  and  the  Departments  and  Boards  of 
Health  existing  in  the  several  parts  of  The  City  of  New 
York  before  the  passage  of  this  act,  which  shall  be 
called  the  "sanitary  code."  Said  Board  of  Health  is 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  from  time  to  time  to 
add  to  or  to  alter,  amend  or  annul  any  part  of  the  said 
sanitary  code,  and  may  therein  publish  additional  pro- 
visions for  the  security  of  life  and  health  in  the  City  of 
New  York,  and  distribute  appropriate  powers  and  duties 
to  the  members  and  employes  of  the  Department  of 
Health,  not  inconsistent  with  the  constitution  or  laws 
of  this  State.  The  Board  of  Health  may  embrace  therein 
all  matters  and  subjects  to*  which,  and  so  far  as,  the 
power  and  authority  of  said  Department  of  Health  ex- 
tends, not  limiting  their  application  to  the  subject  of 
health  only.  But  no  such  revision,  alteration  or  amend- 
ment shall  take  effect,  or  be  binding  or  in  force,  until 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  81 

the  same  lias  been  published  onco  a  week  for  two  succes- 
sive weeks  in  the  "City  Record."  The  publication  of  ad- 
ditional provisions  in,  and  of  additional  ordinances  of 
the  sanitary  code  once  a  week  for  two  successive  weeks 
in  the  "City  Record"  shall  be  sufficient,  and  render  any 
further  publication  of  the  same  in  any  other  newspaper 
unnecessary.  Any  violation  of  said  code  or  its  amend- 
ments shall  be  treated  and  punished  as  a  misdemeanor, 
and  the  offender  shall  also  be  liable  to  pay  a  penalty  of 
fifty  dollars,  to  be  recovered  in  a  civil  action  in  the  name 
of  the  Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York, 
before  any  justice  or  tribunal  in  said  city,  havinj?  juris- 
diction of  civil  actions;  and  all  such  justices  and  tri- 
bunals shall  take  jurisdiction  of  such  action.  Copies  of 
the  record  of  the  proceedings  of  said  board,  of  its  rules, 
regulations,  ordinances,  by-laws  and  books  and  papers 
constituting  part  of  its  archives,  and  the  sanitary  code, 
now  or  hereafter  in  force  in  said  city,  and  the  ordinances 
of  the  sanitary  code  added  thereto  and  adopted  by  said 
Board  of  Health,  when  authenticated  by  its  secretary,  or 
secretary  j^tro  tempore,  shall  be  presumptive  evidence,  and 
the  authentication  taken  as  presumptively  correct  in  any 
court  of  justice,  or  judicial  proceeding,  when  they  may 
be  relevant  to  the  point  or  matter  in  controversy,  of  the 
facts,  statements  and  recitals,  therein  contained. 


CHAPTER  466,  LAWS  OF  1901. 

SANITARY    CODE. 

Sec.  1172.  The  sanitary  code  which  shall  be  in  force 
in  the  City  of  New  York  the  first  day  of  January,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  two,  and  all  existing  provisions  of 
law  for  fixing  penalties  for  violations  of  said  code  are 


82  THE    SANITARY    CODE. 

hereby  declared  to  be  binding  and  in  force  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  and  shall  continue  to  be  so  binding  and  in 
force,  except  as  the  same  may,  from  time  to  time,  be  re- 
vised, altered,  amended  or  annulled  as  herein  provided. 
Provided,  however,  that  so  much  of  this  section  as  de- 
clares the  sanitary  code  binding,  and  in  force  in  the 
City  of  New  York  shall  not  be  construed  as  limiting  the 
storage  of  fertilizers  or  the  keeping  and  slaughtering  of 
fowls,  cattle  and  other  domestic  animals  upon  premises 
used  for  farming  in  unimproved  sections  of  the  city,  or 
as  forbidding  the  ordinary  use  of  country  roads  in  driv- 
ing such  fowls,  cattle  and  other  domestic  animals.  Said 
Board  of  Health  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered, 
from  time  to  time,  to  add  to  and  to  alter,  amend  or 
annul  any  part  of  the  said  sanitary  code,  and  may  there- 
in publish  additional  provisions  for  the  security  of 
life  and  health  in  the  City  of  New  York,  and  confer  ad- 
ditional powers  on  the  Department  of  Health,  not  in- 
consistent with  the  constitution  or  laws  of  this  state, 
and  may  provide  for  the  enforcement  of  the  said  sanitary 
code  by  such  fines,  penalties,  forfeitures,  or  imprison- 
ment as  may  by  ordinance  be  prescribed.  The  Board  of 
Health  may  embrace  in  said  sanitary  code  all  matters 
and  subjects  to  which,  and  so  far  as,  the  power  and 
authority  of  said  Department  of  Health  extends,  not 
limiting  their  application  to  the  subject  of  health  only. 
Any  violation  of  said  sanitary  code  shall  be  treated  and 
punished  as  a  misdemeanor.  Pecuniary  penalties  for 
violation  of  said  sanitary  code  may  be  recovered  in  a 
civil  action  in  the  name  of  the  Department  of  Health  of 
the  City  of  New  York,  before  any  justice  or  tribunal  in 
said  city,  having  jurisdiction  of  civil  actions;  and  all 
such  justices  and  tribunals  shall  take  jurisdiction  of 
such  action.     Copies  of  the  record  of  the  proceedings  of 


THE    SANITARY    CODE.  83 

said  Board  of  Health,  of  its  rules,  regulations,  ordi- 
nances, by-laws  and  books  and  papers  constituting  part 
of  its  archives,  and  the  sanitary  code,  now  or  hereafter 
in  force  in  said  city,  when  authenticated  by  its  secretary 
or  secretary  pro  tempore,  shall  be  presumptive  evidence, 
and  the  authentication  taken  as  presumptively  correct 
in  any  court  of  justice,  or  judicial  proceedings,  when 
they  may  be  relevant  to  the  point  or  matter  in  contro- 
versy, of  the  facts,  statements,  and  recitals,  therein  con- 
tained. 


INDEX   TO   THE    SANITARY    CODE.  85 


INDEX  TO  THE  SANITARY  CODE. 

Sections 

Adulterations,    etc 65,     67 

Agents,   to  give  Information GO 

Alcoholic    spirits,    distilling    of U4 

Animal   food,    age   of 4:5 

Animal  matter,  putrid,  not  to  be  thrown  into  streets,  sewers,  etc..  102 

Animals,    dangerous    or   offensive 69,     74 

"         body  not  to  be  carted  through  the  street  unless  covered..     45 

"         not   to  be  kept   in   infected  places 71 

slaughtering    of    81,     90 

slaughtering   of,    prohibited  below  Thirty-ninth   street...     83 

"        not  to  be  killed  or  dressed  in  market 81 

dead,    sick,    and    injured 124,   132 

"    .    sick   with  contagious  diseases  to   be   reported 127 

dead,    entrails,    etc.,    of 45 

not  taken  to  market  till  cool 45 

"  "      not  to   be  throv/n   into  streets,   sewers,    etc., 

98,   102,   103,   12S 

not  to  be  skinned  in  street 1-'>1 

"  "       glue-making,    etc.,    from 91 

"       duties   of  contractors  for 9,   114 

"         mad     l-^^ 

"         noisy    180 

age  of,  whose  meat  may  be  sold 43 

' '         dead,    piers   and   docks   for 113,  114,  115 

"       skinning,    business    of 90,  91 

diseased  or  injured,   to   be   reported 127,  130 

diseased    l-'-  l*^-  ^-^ 

"         injured    or   diseased,    how  killed 129 

«•  "        who    may    Interfere    with 129 

dead  or  past  recovery  to  be  removed 129 

with  hydrophobia  or  exposed  thereto 132 

Animal   substance,    deposit   of 1^ 

Antitoxin     ^*^ 

Apartments,   when  not  to   be  occupied 18 

Ash-boxes     108.109 

Ash-carts,    construction    of !*• 


'Ashes,"    meaning   of 


2 


86  INDEX  TO  THE   SANITAEY  CODE, 

Sections 

Ashes,    delivery  of,   to    carts 110 

"        receptacles    for 108 

' '        removing  of  108 

"        not  to  be  mixed  with  garbage 108 

"        not  to   be  sifted   in  street 118 

not  to  be  thrown  into  streets  or  rivers 100 

"        persons    engaged    in    removing 111,114,119,   121 

from   forges,    etc 96 

Asiatic    cholera 133 

Asses 69 

Authorities — public  and  private  to  observe  regulations  preventing 

spread    of   pulmonary   tuberculosis 138 

Barber  shops,  to  be  conducted  in  accordance  with  regulations....  179 

Basins  to  have  proper  traps 33 

Bath  pipes  not  to  be  connected  with  water-closet  pipes 83 

Bath   room,    sleeping    in 18 

Bathing   houses   at   seashore 26 

Baths  to  be  trapped 33 

Bedding   for   vessels .152,  157 

"  "     stables    Ill 

Beverage,   beer  or  drink 51 

"  not  to  be  sold  in  cemeteries 168 

Birds 42.     58 

"     not   sound   and   fresh 42,     58 

*'     not  sound,   mode  of  treating 58 

"     mode  of  keeping 81 

"^  offensive     128 

"     that  died  by  disease  or  accident 42 

"     seizure    of 58 

"     noisy    180 

Births,     deaths     and    marriages 158,   162 

"  '*  "         assistants  at,    duties  of 159 

"  "  "         false   certificates   of 162 

"  "  "         forgeries   of   certificates 162 

registry    of 160,  161 

report  of,   to  be  made 159,160,  161 

who    shall    report .158,159,160 

Blacksmiths     96 

Blood  not  allowed  to  go  into  sewer 85,  103 

Boats,  for  removal  of  garbage,  not  be  moored  more  than  24  hours  123 
"Board,"    meaning   of 1 


INDEX   TO   THE   SANITAKY   CODE.  87 

Sections 

"Boarding-house,"    meaning  of 3 

keepers  to  report  persons  sick 13G 

Boarding-houses,   no  poisonous  or  unwholesome  food  or  drinks  In.     47 

"  "         privies  or  water-closets   for 20 

"  "         not  to  be  overcrowded 19 

"  "         to   be   ventilated,    etc 22 

"  "         owners  of,   to  provide  for  health 22 

"             "         tenants  in,   lessees  and  owners  of,  to  report  per- 
sons   sick    at 150 

Bone-boiling,     forbidden 90 

"     burning,  "  90 

"     grinding,         "  91 

Bones,     deposit     of..., 101 

transporting    permit 101 

Breadstuffs,     exposing    in    street 46 

Brick   in   streets 113 

Brine  not  to  escape  into  street 102 

Bronx,  certain  business  prohibited  without  permit 91 

Brooklyn,   driving  of  cattle  in 84 

' '  slaughtering     animals     in 82 

"  certain   business   prohibited   without   permit 91 

Building,   precautions  to  -be  observed  in 118 

Buildings,   construction  of,   etc 17,85,89,     91 

"  to   be  ventilated,   sewered,   etc.... 17 

"  when   not   to   be   let 17 

"  when  to  contain  nothing  offensive 107 

"  overcrowding    of 19 

definition     11 

"  for   dwelling   or   lodging  not   allowed   on   same    lot   as 

slaughter-house   85 

"           manufacture  of  illuminating  gas,  plans  to  be  approved     89 
"           for  certain  occupations,   not  to  be  erected  without  per- 
mit          92 

"  for  slaughtering  animals,   construction,    location,   etc...     82 

"  contagious   disease,   persons  sick   or  exposed   not  to  be 

taken   from 156 

Burial,    mode    of 168 

returns   of,   to  be  made 163 

Burning  material,  not  to  be  done  without  permit Ill 

Burying-places   1^8 

"  "       persons  in  charge  of 167,  170 


88  INDEX   TO   THE    SANITAKY   CODE. 

Sections 

Business,   dangerous  or  detrimental  to  health 88,     92 

' '  offensive,    requiring   permit 94 

"Butcher,"     meaning    of 7 

Butchers    require    permits 82 

"        to    allo-w    inspection 60 

"        to  keep  places  clean 85 

Butchers'   ice-boxes,   refrigerators,   etc 50 

offal  and   garbage 103,  121 

"         refuse,   manner  of  transporting 87 

"         to   give    information. 60 

Butter,     unwholesome 52 

Calves,   young,   meat  from 43 

Canals,    filth  not  to   be  discharged   into 38 

Candies  and  confectioneries 46 

Carelessness,    responsibility    for '. 8 

Cargo  from  quarantine 153 

Cai-pets     118 

Cars,    railroad,    cushions. 172 

"  "  to   be  cleansed 173 

"  "  one   in  four  to  be  closed 176 

"  "  no    dirty  clothing  on 174 

"  "  speed  of,   on  curves 177 

"  "  ventilators     175 

Carts  for  night-soil,   manure,   etc.,  construction  of 121 

"  "  "  "       not   to   stand   in   the   street...   120 

"  "  "  "       nothing    to   escape   from 121 

Cats,   permit  to  keep  for  sale 79 

Cattle,   horses,   etc 69 

"Cattle,"    meaning   of 7 

Cattle,    overheated,    diseased,    or    feverish 44 

' '         diseased,   to  be  reported 44,     58 

"        diseased,  to  be  removed  from  city 44 

"        dangerous    69,     74 

"        in  vehicles 76 

"        not  to  run  at   large 69 

' '        permit  to  keep 71 

yarding    of 72 

• '         diseased,    not    to    be    brought   in 124 

"        place  of  keeping 69 

"        not  to  be  unloaded  in  street 69 

"        unsound,    mode   of   treating 58 


INDEX  TO  THE   SANITARY   CODE.  89 

Sections 

Cattle,     how    transported 70 

"         driving    in   street G!),  73,  81 

mode   of   Iceeping    and   elauglitering 81 

"        not  to  be  slaughtered  south  of  Thirty-ninth  street 8.'{ 

"         not  slaughtered  without  permit 82 

unwholesome,    seizure    of G7 

Cattle-yards    require    permit 72 

Calves,    slaughter  of 82 

Ceilings     whitewashed 23 

'Cellar,"    meaning   of 3 

Cellars     17,  18 

"       permit  to  occupy  as  stable 7G 

"       sleeping    in 18 

Cemeteries     167 

"         persons  In   charge   of 109,  170 

"         food  not  to  be  sold  in 168 

Cesspools   37 

"         not  to  be  emptied  except  by  permit 122 

"         contents  of,  not  to  be  put  into  streets  or  rivers.  100,  104,  106 

"         contents  of,   not  to  come  within  two  feet  of  top 104 

"               "                     "       become  offensive 104 

removal     of lOG,  122 

"               "                     "       to   be   disinfected 122 

"         building   and   inspection   of 37 

"         care  in  transporting  contents  of 120 

"        turning   and    stirring   contents   of Ill 

"        offal,   ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  not  to  be  put  into 105 

not  to  be  filled  with  dirt  till  filth  Is  removed 104 

Cheese,     unwholesome 52 

Chickens,  permit  to  keep  live 78 

Chief  officers  of  vessels  to  report  person  sick 149,  151 

Children,    when   not  to   attend   school 145 

Chimney  flues  not  used  as  ventilators  of  sewers,  etc 29 

Cholera     133 

Churches,   duties  of  officers  of 25 

Cigar  factories,   spittoons  to  be  provided 178 

Cinders     ^ 


from  forges,   factories,   etc. 


Cisterns 


96 
104 


"City,"    etc.,   meaning  of 1 


Clam    shells. 


112 


90  INDEX  TO  THE   SANITAEY  CODE. 

Sections 

Clergymen  to  register  marriages 161 

' '           to    report    marriages 158 

performing  marriages  to  register  name  and  address....  158 

Coal,   included  in  term  '  'ashes' ' 2 

Coal-dust    96,  118 

Coal-yards   96 

Colts    69.  72.  125 

Concert    saloons 3 

Condemnation  of  unsound  food 43,  58 

Confectionery     46.  67 

Consignees  of  vessels  to  report  persons  sick 149 

Contagious  and  infectious  diseases,  reports  as  to.  127,  133,  136,  137, 

138,  140,   141,  151 

"Contagious   disease,"    meaning  of 5 

to   be   reported..: 133,  144,  151 

persons   sick   with 140,143,154,  156 

"                   "           animals     sick 124 

"                   "           articles    exposed   to 146 

"                   "           children  sick  witli,   not  to  attend  school...  145 

"                   "           needless  exposure  to 145 

"                   "           duties  of  undertakers  in  cases  of 141 

"                    "           undertakers    to    report 141 

"                   "           hospitals    140 

"                   "           retaining  body 165 

"Contractor,"    meaning    of 1 

Contractors  for  night-soil,  offal,  garbage,  etc.,   duties  of 113,  114 

"           for  cleaning  streets 39 

"           to   comply  with  Code 9 

Coroners    171 

Corpses     ' 163,  167,  168 

Cows   91,  124 

"    veterinary    certificate    required 124 

Cream,    adulterated 57 

Crematories    167 

Croton  water  not  to  be  interfered  with 64 

Croup,  a  contagious  disease 141 

Curb-stones     41 

Day    nurseries 25 

Dead  bodies,  interments,  sextons .167,  168 

"              not  to  be  exposed  where  death  from  contagious  dis- 
ease      141,  143 

"              not  to  be  buried  without  permit 167 


INDEX  TO  THE   SANITARY   CODE.  91 

Sections 

Dead  bodies,  to  be  reported 106,  170 

"              not  to  be  transported  without  permit 163 

"              not  to  be  unduly  retained  or  exposed 164,  165 

Dead   animals   not  to  be  thrown   into   streets,    etc 128 

"                to  be  removed 130 

to   be   reported 130 

certain  to  have  tag 128 

Deaths,    marriages    and    births 158,  102 

"               "                 "          false   certificates  of 162 

"                "                  "           forgeries    of    certificates 102 

"                "                  "           registry   of 160,  161 

"               "                 "          report  of,  to  be  made 159,  160,  161 

"  "  "  whose  duty  to  report 158,159,160 

Decoctions     65 

Definitions    1,  7 

"Department,"   meaning  of 1 

Diphtheria    antitoxin    148 

Diphtheria,    a  communicable   disease 133 

Dirt   and   filth 87,100,  111 

"Dirt,"    meaning    of 2 

Dirt,  where  not  to  be  deposited Ill 

not  to  lie  piled  or  raked  up  in  street 114 

not  to  be  thrown  into  streets  or  rivers 100 

docks  for   113,  115 

in   street    117 

removal    of 121 

persons  engaged  in  transporting 119 

"Disease,"  contagious,  meaning  of 5 

"           infectious  or  pestilential 5 

Disease,    specific  name   and  type   of,    to   bo  reported 135 

"         certain   to   be  reported 133,  137 

"         infectious,    contagious   and   communicable 133 

"         isolation    rooms 140 

"         when  persons  sick  to  be  removed 139 

"         contagious,   persons  sick  of  a,   to  be  reported.  .133,  134,  137 
"         contagious,   persons  sick   of  a,   not  to  be  exposed  or  re- 
moved      143 

"         contagious,   articles  exposed  to 152,   154,  156 

"                 "             persons    exposed    to 143 

"                "             exposure   to 143,  145 

Diseased    animals 1-^"  ^^ 


92  INDEX   TO   THE   SANITARY   CODE. 

Sections 

Diseased  animals,    to  be   reported 130 

Disinfection   of   infected  premises 146 

Dispensary,   to  report  certain   diseases 134 

"  to        "         tuberculosis    138 

Distilleries  require   permit 94 

Docks  for  offal   and  nigbt-soil Ill,    113,  123 

"  "  "         vessels  not  to  go  to 115 

Dogs,    noisy 180 

"         biting  any  person  to  be  surrendered 132 

"        permit  to  keep  for  sale 79 

Drain  pipes  in  relation  to  joints,  connections,   size  of,   etc.  .30,  31,     '62 

Drain  materials  and  connections  not  to  be  used  or  made 34,     35 

Drainage,    arrangement    of 27 

"  to    be    adequate 27 

"  not  to  discharge  into  streams.' JJS 

Drink    and    food 42,     60 

Drinks,    poisonous,    deleterious,    or   adulterated... 47 

"        dangerous  or  detrimental  to  life  or  health 51 

Drinking-hydrants 64 

Drugs,   medicines,    adulterations  and  poisons 65 — 68 

Drugs 65,     66 

'  •     adulterated    68 

"     how  marked  and  sold 65,     66 

Ducks 78 

Dust  from  factories,   etc 96,  118 

Dwellings,    lodging  houses  and   other   buildings 16 — 26 

Eggs    6 

Elevated   railroad  stations  and  spitting  in 178 

Emigrant  vessels,    bedding  from 152 

Enforcement    of   ordinances 11,     12 

Entrails  of  dead  animals 45 

Excavations     107,  116 

Exposure   to   disease 143,  145 

Factory    refuse 38 

False     statements 15 

Farcy,  animals  sick  with 125 

Fat    93 

"    only  fresh,   to  be  boiled  or  rendered 95 

"    not  to  be  brought  into  city  to  be  rendered 95 

"    rendering    of 93 

Fat-boiling    91 


INDEX   TO   THE   SANITARY   CODE.  93 

Sections 

Pat-boiling,   to   be   in   steam-tight   vessels 95 

"            odors   in,    to  be   destroyed 95 

"            to   be  free  from  offense 05 

Feathers    118 

Feet   of   dead   animals 45 

Fence,   for  lots  and  excavations llfJ 

Fertilizers,    manufacture   of 91 

Fevers    133 

Filling    grounds,    etc 08 

Filth    and    dirt.. 100,111,  122 

Filth  not  to  escape  into  street 102,  121 

"Fish,"  meaning  of 6 

Fish-boiling 91 

Fish  when  for  sale 6 

"     not    fresh   or   sound 48,  5.S 

"     that   died  by   disease  or  accident 41,  42 

"     mode    of    keeping 81 

"     not  to  be  exposed,  etc. ,  outside  of  shops 45 

' '     unsound,   mode  of   treating 58 

"     false  label  or  statement  as  to 48 

"     offensive    5S,  128 

Flag-stones    ; 40,  41 

Food  and  drink   42 — GO 

' '      unwholesome,    meagre,    or    sickly 43,  47 

"      not  to  be  made  and  sold  under  false  name 65 

"      not  to  be  sold  in  cemeteries 168 

"      not  to  be  taken  to  market  till  cool 45 

unwholesome,    deleterious,    or    adulterated 67 

"      false  label  or  statement  as  to 48 

"      unsound,   mode   of  treating 58 

Forges    06,  118 

Foundries      ^^ 

Fowls,    not   sound  and  fresh 58 

"             "             mode    of    dealing    with 58 

"        mode    of   keeping h 81 

"       offensive     ^^'  1-^ 

"       that  died  by  disease  or  by  accident 42 

"       permit  to  keep 78 

Fruit    42,49,  58 

Funerals — contagious   diseases HI'  1*2 

Furnaces  to   be   smoke-consuming ^^ 


94  INDEX  TO  THE   SANITARY  CODE. 

Sections 

"Garbage,"   meaning  of   2 

Garbage,  not  to  fall  or  be  thrown  into  streets,  rivers,   etc 103 

•where  not  to  be  deposited 98,  111 

docks    for 113,  115,  123 

not  to  be  heaped  together  in  street 110 

boxes     108,  109,  120,  121 

receptacles  not  to  be  interfered  with 109 

to  be  received  and  transported  as  approved  by  Board  of 

Health    123 

not  to  be  mixed  with  ashes,   etc 108 

how    transported 123 

removal     of 110 

delivery   to    carts 110 

persons    engaged   in   transporting 114,  119 

duties  of  contractors  for 9,  114 

loading   and    unloading Ill 

turning    and    stirring Ill 

deodorization     of 123 

Garbage-carts,    construction   of 121 

"  how    managed 120 

Garbage-scows,    construction   of 123 

Gas     89 

"  from   factories,    etc 89,     96 

"  offensive,  dangerous,  or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health,  not  to  be 

made     89 

Gas-tar  not  to  escape , 89 

Gas-works     89 

' '         odors  from,   to  be  prevented 89 

Geese 69,     78 

Glanders    125,  127 

Glue-making    91 

Goats     69 

Goods,   damaged,   not  to  be  exposed  for  sale 118 

Graves    168 

Grease    99 

Ground,   what,   and  when,   may  be  opened 99 

Grounds,  filling  up 98 

Gut-cleaning      91 

Gut-fat 45 

Gutters    to    be    cleaned 39,     40 

how  to  be  cleaned 39 


INUKX    TO   TIIK    SAMTAIJY    CODK.  !»') 

Sections 

Gutters  not  to  be  obstructed 117 

Gymnasiums    25 

Hair    lis 

Halls  of  worship,   ventilation,   etc 2b 

Harbor,  filth  not  to  be  emptied  into 38 

Heads  of  dead  animals 46 

Heads  of  institutions  to  report  sick  persons 140 

Health,    duties   in   respect   to 8 

Hide-tanning,   skinning,   etc.,   establishments 88 

Hides  not  to  be  unloaded  without  permit 152 

Hogs,    unloading   in   street 69 

Horses     G9,   72,     86 

with    glanders   or   farcy 125 

"      sick 124 

"      slaughtering  of,    for  food,   forbidden 86 

"  "  forbidden  without  a  permit 86 

"       skinning     of 91 

dead  body  of  to  have  tag 131 

Hospitals — contagious  diseases   140 

Hotel-keepers,   to  report  sick  persons 136 

Hotels,  tenants,   lessees,  owners,   etc.,  of,  to  report  sick  persons  in 

136,    150 

"House,   tenement,"   m"eaning  of 3 

boarding,  "  3 

lodging,  "  ii 

House  drain,  to  be  kept  in  good  repair 32 

Hydrants     <>* 

Hydrant  waste  pipes  to  be  trapped 33 

Hydrophobia     ^-^^ 

Ice-box.      See    "Refrigerators." 

Infected  places   or  vessels 156 

premises,    disinfection  bt 146 

Infectious     disease 5,   133 

Innkeepers  to   report  sick   persons 136 

Inns,  tenants,   lessees,  owners,  etc.,  of,  to  report  sick  persons  in..   136 

Inquests,    coroners' 171 

Inspection,     obstructing 12 

"  to   be   permitted 137 

Inspector  may  destroy  adulterated  milk 54 

"        may  obtain  information  from  butchers,   milk  dealers  and 

others    ^ 

Institutions  to   report  sick  persons l-*0 


96  IXDEX    TO   THE    SANITARY   CODE. 

Sections 

Interments,    sextons,    dead   bodies 166,  167 

require    permits 167 

Label — diphtheria,    antitoxin — to    be    labeled 148 

Lambs,  young,  meat  from ., 43 

Lampblack   manufactory    94 

Land,   garbage  not  to  be  used  for  filling  in 98 

Lard,  only  fresh,  to  be  rendered  or  melted 93,  95 

"     rendering,   to   be  done  in  steam-tight  vessels 95 

"             "           odors  in,   to  be   destroyed 95 

to    be    inoffensive 93 

"'     not  to  be  brought  into  city  for  rendering,  melting,   etc 95 

X,ard-boiling 95 

Laws,   compliance  with 12 

Leaders  not  to  be  used  for  certain  purposes 35 

construction   of 35 

Leather- dressing  establishments   88 

■"Lessee,"   meaning   of    1 

duties  of   10 

Liability  for  violation  of  Code 13 

Life,  duties  in  respect  to 8 

Life  lines  for  bathers 26 

•"Light,"    meaning   of 1 

Lime    91,  118 

Liquid,    noxious  or  stinking 102 

Ijiquid  refuse  not  to  be  mixed  with  ashes  or  rubbish 108 

"        receptacles  for 108 

"        removal   of    108 

"        how   transported    108 

"         "        not  to  spill  or  leak 121 

turning  or  stirring Ill 

ILiquids,   offensive 88,   102,  104 

not  to  be  discharged  into   harbor,    etc 38 

false  statement  as  to 48 

Lobster-shells     112 

"  'Lodging-house, ' '   meaning  of 3 

Lodging-houses 19,   21,  47 

food  in    47 

not  to  be  overcrowded 21 

"             privies   for 20 

"  tenants,   lessees,  owners,  etc.,  of,  to  report  persons 

sick    in    150 


INDEX   TO   THE   SANITARY    CODE.  97 

Sections 

Lodging-houses,    walls  and   ceilings  to  be  whitewashed 23 

Lodging-house  keepers  to  report  sick  persons 130 

Lots,  vacant,  to  be  provided  with  proper  tight  board  fence,  etc...   116 

Mad    animals    132 

Magistrates  to   report,   etc.,    marriages 158 

who   perform   marriages  to   register 158 

"Manager,"     meaning    of 1 

Managers  of  institutions  to   report  sick  persons 134,   1.38 

Manhattan,  no  cattle  driving  in 84 

"  slaughtering    in    83 

"Manufactory,"    meaning  of 3 

Manufactories 20,  21,  22,   SO.     94 

no    overcrowding    of 19 

"  water-closets  for,    to   be  provided 20 

"  temperature  of    22 

' '  safeguards   in    22 

for  certain  purposes  not  to  be  established 94 

' '  refuse  to  be  removed  from 96 

Manure  not  to  be  thrown  into  streets  or  rivers 100 

Manure,    persons  engaged   in   transporting 97,  119 

"         carts,   boxes,   etc 120 

"         to  be  removed 97 

"         care    in    transporting 97,  121 

"        where  not  to  be  deposited 100,  111 

"         handling    of    97 

"         loading  and  unloading Ill 

turning   and    stirring Ill 

docks   for    113.115 

"Market,    private,"    meaning   of 7 

Markets,   unsound  and  unwholesome  articles  not  to  be  kept  in 42 

"  to  be  kept  cleanly 49 

' '  refrigerators   in    50 

"  animals  not  to  be  killed  or  dressed  in SI 

Marriages,    births    and    deaths 158,   162 

"  "  "       false  certificates  of 162 

"  "  "       forgeries  of  certificates 162 

•'  persons  who  perform  to  register  name  and  address 158 

"  report  of,   to   be  made 158,  161 

'  *  registry  of   161 

Masters   of  vessels  to   report 149.  151 

Matter,    filthy    102 


98  IXDEX    TO   THE    SAKITAEY   CODE. 

Sections 

Measles   a   contagious   disease 133 

'  'Meat, ' '    meaning   of 6 

when    for    sale 6 

unsound   or   un-wholesome 42,  43,  48,     58 

of  animals  that  died  by  disease  or  accident 42 

"  not  to  go  to  market  till  cool 45 

keeping   and  slaughtering,    mode  of 81 

"  not  to  be  taken  to  market  till  certain  things  done 45 

' '  false  statement  of  label  as  to 48 

"  to   be  kept   clean   and  -n-holesome 49 

' '  offensive  128 

"  not  to  be  hung,    etc.,   in  street 45 

buildings   where   treated,    how    constructed 85 

"  unsound,    mode   of    dealing  with 58 

Medicines    65,   66,     68 

not  to  be  sold  under  false  name 65 

poisonous    66 

Merchandise,    damaged,    not   to   be   exposed  for   sale 118 

Midwives    5,  159 

Milch-cows    124 

Milk,    condensed    55 

Milk  dealers  to  allow  inspection  and  give  information 60 

Milk,   false  label  or  statement  as  to 48 

unwholesome,    impure    and    adulterated 52,  53,  55,     58 

permits    56 

seizure   of   adulterated 54 

swill    52 

Mineral  waters,  filing  name  of,  etc 59 

Misfeasance  and  nonfeasance 8 

Mules     69 

Negligence    8 

Night-soil,    docks   and  piers   for 113,  115 

' '  contractors   for    9,  114 

' '  handling  of  Ill 

' '  care    in    removal    of 114 

' '  not  to  run  into  streets  or  grounds 104 

"  "         come  within  two  feet  of  top 104 

' '  not  to  lie  in  street 114 

"  to   be   disinfected 122 

"  carts 121 

"  mode  of  using  carts  for 121 


INDEX  TO  THE   SANITARY   CODE.  99 

Sections 

Noises    180 

Nonfeasance    and    misfeasance 8 

Kotlce  of  change  of  sewer  connection 2? 

Notices  not  to  be  torn  down  or  mutilated 137 

Nuisance    11,  42,  111 

to  be  abated  within  time  specified 13 

not   to   be   permitted 38,  111 

Nurseries,    day    26 

Nurses   5,   159,  160 

Obedience  to   ordinances 9 

"Occupant,"    moaning    of 1 

liability   of    13 

Occupations  detrimental  to  health,   or  dangerous 88,  89,  90 

Odors  and  liquids,   offensive 88,   99,  111 

Offal,    docks  for 113 

"         "         "  vessels  not  to   go  to 115 

"       not   to   lie   in   streets    114 

"       contractors  for    11-1 

"       loading  and  unloading Ill 

"      handling    of 8.'j,  87 

boiling     90,  91 

'■       not  to  be  thro-ssrn  into  sewers,  streets,  rivers,  etc 85,  HXi 

how   managed    120 

"      construction  of  carts,   etc.,    for 121 

where  not  to  be  deposited Ill 

care  in  transporting 120 

"      persons   engaged    in   transporting 114,  119 

"      to  be  conveyed  in  tight  vessels 87 

Offensive   material    88,  102,  103,  104,  105.  111.  120,  121.  122 

"         trades    8S 

"Officer,"    meaning   of ^ 

Officers  of  vessels  to  report 149,   151,    l."2,   15.i 

94,     '.5 


Oil-boiling 
Omissions 


.9,      12 


Orders  to  be  observed 1^ 

Ordinances,    obedience    to ^.   H-     1"* 


Overcrowding 


19 


"Owner,"    meaning   of ^ 

duties    of    10 

Owner  and  tenant  jointly  and  severally  liable 13 

Owners   of   vessels   to   report   persons   and   articles   from    Infected 

places    l-*9.  15^ 


100  INDEX   TO   THE    SAXITARY   CODE. 

Sections 
Owners  of  boarding  and  lodging  houses  to  report  persons  sick.136,  150 

Oyster-shells    112 

' '      saloons    112 

"Party,"    meaning    of 1 

"Permit,"    meaning   of 1 

Permit  obtained  by  false  statements 15 

"        to  remove  persons  sick  of  contagious  disease 143 

'•  "  articles  exposed  to   contagion 154 

for    burial    163,  165 

Connecticut     163 

"  "  New  Jersey   163 

"         to    remove    bodies 163 

"        to    deposit   manure,    offal,    etc IH 

"        to  keep   swine  and  goats 7ii 

"        to   yard    cattle,    swine,    sheep,    goats,    and    horses,    ducks, 

geese    or    fowls 72,     78 

"         to  occupy  offal   or  night-soil   dock. 115 

"         to  transact  certain  kinds  of  business 88,     94 

' '         to  keep  cows 71 

"         for  vessels  or  things  from  quarantine 152,  153,   154,  155 

"        for   persons  or  articles   from  infected   places 152.  156 

"         to   land   rags,   hides,    etc 152 

for    slaughter-houses 82 

to    occupy   street   or   sidewalk IIT 

"         for    scavengers    119,   122 

for  persons  engaged  in  transporting  manure,  swill,   offal..   119 

"         to   empty  vaults,   sinks,   privies,   and  cesspools 122 

to  unload  cattle,    etc.,    in  streets 69 

horses    not   to    be   slaughtered  without 86 

to  transport  offal  or  butchers'   refuse 87 

to  inter  dead   167 

to    open    burying-ground 168 

to   open   vault,    etc 168 

to  use  street  sweepings  for  filling  in  lot,  etc 98 

"         to    open   ground    containing   offensive   matter 99 

to  collect  bones,    etc.,    and  transport  same 101 

to  stand  cai's   loaded  with  manure Ill 

to  burn  straw  and  other  material Ill 

'•        to   deposit  dirt,   etc.,   in  street 117 

"        to  have  offensive  material  deposited  during  accumulation.  Ill 
■     "         to    transport    offensive    matter    119 


INDEX   TO   THE    SANITAKY   CODE.  101 

Scctlonn 

Permit  to  remove  contents  of  vault,   etc 122 

"        to    use    well    water (Cj 

to    land   and    drive   cattle (Cj 

' '        to  yard  horses,   sheep,   etc 72 

to   lead  cattle   through  street 7;{ 

"         to  drive  sheep  through  street 73 

"         to    keep    live    chiclcens 78 

to  keep  cats,   dogs  or  birds  for  sale 79 

to  keep  pigeons  in  built-up  portions  of  city SO 

"         for    lodging    house Ul 

for    smoke    house KJ 

' '        for  day  nursery   25 

for  bathing  establishment 26 

for   mineral   waters    51) 

"        for   slaughter   houses 82 

stable  in  cellar 75 

' '        false  statement  for 15 

meaning    1 

for  sale  of  milk 56 

"Person,"    meaning    of 1 

Person   to   report   contagious   disease 137 

"Physician,"     meaning    of 6 

Physician,   to  keep  registry  of  births  and  deaths 159 

to   report   births   and   deaths 135,  161 

"       deaths    by    contagious    disease 135 

name   and  type   of  disease 135 

what    included    in    terra 6 

to   register  name   and   residence 166 

to   report   persons   sick   of  contagious   disease 133.  140 

Piers,   manure,   etc.,  not  to  be  deposited  on Ill 

for  offal,   etc.,   not  to  be  obstructed 113,  115 

for    night-soil 113 

Pigeons,  permit  to  keep,  in  built-up  portions  of  city SO 

Pig-pens    ^^ 

Pigs,    young,    meat    of "^'^ 

Pigs  not  to  run  at   large 69 

' '     unloading   in   street 69 

' '     slaughter   of   82 

"     driving    in    street 69 

Pipes,  waste  or  soil,  to  be  ventilated 36 

waste,   soil  and  vent,   length,   diameter,   etc 30 

In  relation  to  joints,    connections,   etc 31,  32 


102  INDEX   TO   THE   SANITARY   CODE. 

Sections 

Platforms  of  elevated   railroads,   spitting  on 178 

Poisons    66,  67 

Poultry,   exposing  in  street 45 

Fremises,    disinfection    of... 146 

to  have  nothing  offensive  on  them 107 

Principals  of  institutions  to  report  persons  sick 140 

Printing  offices,    spittoons  to  be  provided 178 

PriA'ies,   contents  of,  not  to  be  left  in  streets  or  rivers..  100,  104,  106 

"       not  to  be  emptied,   except  by  permit 122 

construction   of   37 

"       not  to   be  filled  with   dirt  till  cleaned 104 

"        contents  of,  not  to  run  into  streets  or  on  grounds. .  .104,  106 

"              "                 "to  come  within  two  feet  of  top 104 

"              "                 "to    become   offensive    104,  107 

turning   and    stirring    contents    ot. Ill 

"        to    be    disinfected 122 

"        ashes,    garbage,   offal,   etc.,   not  to  be  put   into 105 

tubs,   etc.,   in,   to  be  tight 106 

to   be   provided   in   certain   buildings 20 

' '        gases  from    20 

Public     funeral     141,  143 

'  'Public  place, ' '    meaning  of 2 

Quarantine,   vessels,   persons   and   articles  that   have  been   in,   re- 
quire   permit 153 

Queens,  driving  cattle  in,   etc 84 

"       burying  body  in 168 

"       certain   business   in,   prohibited   without   permit 91 

Rags  not  to  be  unloaded  without  permit 152 

Railroad    cars,    no    cushions   in 172 

"             "      to  be  cleaned  daily 173 

"             "      one  in   four   to  be   closed 176 

"             "      no    dirty   clothing  in 174 

"             "      speed   of,    on   curves 177 

"             "      ventilators     175  . 

' '          stations,    spitting    in 178 

Rain    water    leaders 35 

Rain  water,   not  to  enter  building 24 

Receptacles    in   privies,    etc 106 

' '             for  ashes  to  be  of  metal 108 

' '             for  garbage,   ashes,   etc 108,  121 

"                       "               "           "     not  to   remain  on  sidewalk..  108 


INDEX  TO  THE   SANITARY   CODE.  103 

Sectlona 

Refuse    material 101 

Refrigerators,    drain  pipe 34,     60 

"  certain  connections  not  to  be  made 34 

Registry   of  birtlis,    marriages  and    deatlis 158,    159,   101 

'  'Regulation. ' '    meaning    of 1 

Regulations,    special,    to    be    observed 11 

Relapsing  fever  contagious   133 

Rendering     93,     95 

to  be   of  only    fresh   material 95 

"  to  be   in  steam-tight  vessels 96 

"  odors  in,   to  be  destroyed 95 

"  to  be  inoffensive 96 

"Report,"     meaning    of 1 

Reports      required     ..125,   127,   130.   131,   134,   135,   136,  137,   138, 

140,   141,  149,  150,  151,  158,  159,  166,   171 

Reservoirs     61 

Richmond,   driving  cattle,   etc.,   in 84 

certain  business  prohibited  in  without  permit 91 

Rivers,    drainage    into 38,  100 

substances  not  to  be  thrown  into 106 

Roof,   repair  of 24 

"      straw,   etc.,   not  to  be  placed  on    Ill 

Rooms,   when  not  to  be  occupied 18 

"        no  offensive  thing  to  be   in 107 

"Rubbish,"    meaning   of 2 

Rubbish  not  to  be  thrown  into  streets  or  rivers 100 

"        to  be  bundled   or  secured lOS 

"        not  to  be  mixed  with  garbage,  etc... ICS 

"        not  to  be  piled  or  raked  in  street 114 

"        removal    o'f 110 

"        turning   and   stirring Ill 

"        delivery  of,    to  carts 110 

carts  for,    how  managed 120 

"  "       "      construction    of 121 

contractors   for 9.  H* 

docks    for 113.115 

persons    engaged    in    transporting 114,   119 

boxes    ^^^ 

Rubella,   a  contagious  disease 133 

"Saloon,"    meaning   of ' 

Saloons,    and  persons  connected  therewith •*' 


104  I2\DEX   TO   THE    SAXITARY    CODE. 

Sections 

Sand    118 

Sanitary   code,    compliance    with 12 

Sanitary  Superintendent,   may  give  permit  to  retain  body  in  case 

of  death  from  contagious  disease 165 

"      Superintendent  may  cause  removal   of  sick  person 139 

"      Superintendent    condemning    unwholesome    food 58 

Scarlet   fever,    a   contagious   disease 133 

Scavengers,    permits   of 119 

Schools    129 

"         sick  children  not  to   attend 145 

School-sinks    37 

Scouring  establishments   88 

Scows,   garbage   123 

Scrap    91,     93 

Seashore,  bathing  regulations ■ 26 

Sewage,  where  not  to  be  discharged 38 

Sewers,  solid  matter  not  to  pass  into 39,     89 

"  private,    gases   from    ••     89 

"  connections     27 

to  be  flushed 28 

' '  construction   and   care   of 27 

Sewer   ventilation,    materials   and   connections   not   to   be   used   or 

made    29 

Sextons — dead   bodies — interments    167,  169,  170 

"         not  to  bury  without  permits 167 

to   make    return 170 

"         to    register    169 

Sheep,    not  to  run  at  large  69 

"         not  to  be  yarded  without  permit 72 

"         sick,   not   to   be  brought   in 124 

driving   in    street. 69,73,     84 

slaughter  of  82,     83 

Shell-burning    91 

Shells,  oyster  and  clam 112 

Shops    96,  118 

Sick  persons,   removal  of 143,  154,  155 

report    of    133,151 

Sidewalks    77 

"  ice  and  water  not  to  be  on 40 

"  not  to  be  obstructed 41,     77 

"  no  animal  or  vehicle  to  be  on 77 

to  be  kept  in  good  condition 40,     41 


INDEX    TO   THE   SANITARY   CODE.  1  0.3 

Sections 
Sinks,  contents  of,   not  to  be  put  Into  streets  or  rivers.. 100,  105,   106 

to   have   proper   traps 33 

not  to   be   emptied,    except   by   permit 37,   122 

construction   of    37 

contents  of,  not  to  run  into  streets  or  grounds 100,  104 

"  "         come  within  two  feet  of  top 104 

"  "         become   offensive   107 

to    be    disinfected 122 

care    in   transporting   contents   of 87 

turning  and  stirring  contents  of Ill 

not  to  be  filled  with  dirt  till  emptied  of  filth 104 

to   have   traps    33 

offal,   ashes,   garbage,   etc.,  not  to  be  put  Into 105 

Skinning  animals,   business  of 88 

Skins   152 

Skylight,    repairing   of 24 

Slaughter-houses    82,     85 

blood,    etc.,    from 85,103 

"  must  be  clean   85 

' '  woodwork  in    85 

"  construction    of    85 

"  none    spijth  of  Thirty-ninth  street,    west  side 83 

"  not    to   be    dwellings 85 

' '  require    permit    82 

"  blood,    offal,    etc.,    in 85 

"                none  below  Forty-third  street,  east  side,   Manhat- 
tan          &3 

"  approval  of  plans 85 

Slaughtering  cattle,   mode  of 81,     82 

in    Brooklyn    82 

not  to  be  done  in  market 81 

below  Thirty-ninth   street 83 

requires   permit 82 

of  horses    86 


Smal 


■pox 


133 


Smoke-house    18 

Smoke  from  factories,   etc 96 

Smoke-consumers 90 

Soda  water,   syrup  or  liquids Bl 

Soil  pipes  in  relation  to  joints,  connections,   size,  etc.,  of 30,  31 

•*  not  to  be  used  as  vent  or  drain  pipes 33 

"  materials  and  connections  not  to  be  used  or  made....  29 


106  INDEX   TO   THE   SANITARY   CODE. 

Sections 

Soil  pipes,    length   and  diameter,    etc 30 

"          ventilation  of  36 

"Special  regulations,"   meaning  of 1 

Special    regulations    to    be   observed 11,  12 

Spirits,    alcohclie,    distilling   of 94 

Spitting  upon  floors  of  public  buildings  and  places 178 

in  printing  offices 178 

cigar   manufactories 178 

' '         on  elevated  railroads,  etc 178 

Stables     97 

to    be   kept    clean 71,  97 

"          animals  In   180 

'  •          in    cellar,    permit    for 75 

• '          Infected,  no  animal  to  be  kept  in 71 

Stairs  of  elevated  railroads,   spitting  on 178 

Stalls,   etc.,   in  market  to  be  clean 49 

Stations  of  elevated  railroads,   spitting  on 178 

Steam  from  factories   96 

Straw  from  emigrant  vessels 152 

"      used  as  bedding  not  to  be  placed  in  street  or  burnt Ill 

"Street,"    meaning   of    2 

Streets,  certain  articles  not  to  be  shaken  or  exposed  in 101 

"         mode   of  cleaning    39 

dirt,    brick,    etc.,    in 117 

"         offensive  substances  falling  in  to  be  replaced 121 

offensive  substances  not  to  be  deposited  in 100,   102,  104 

straw,   etc..  not  to  be  dried  in Ill 

not  to  be  obstructed 77 

"         dirt  or  rubbish  not  to   lie  piled  or  raked  up  in 114 

Surf   bathing 26 

Swill   not  to   escape   into   street 102 

"     persons    engaged    in   transporting 119 

"     in  what  kind   of  vessels  removed 120,  121 

"     vessels  with,  not  to  leak  or  spill 121 

' '     how  transported    120 

"     turning  and  stirring  of Ill 

"     carts,    construction   of 121 

"         "       mode  of  using 120 

"     boiling 91 

Swill  milk    52 

' '           butter   and    cheese    from 62 


INDEX    TO   THE    SANITARY   CODE.  107 

Sections 

Swine  not  to  go  at  large  68 

"      unloading    in    street 68 

' '      places  where  kept  to  be  clean 97 

"      not  to  be  yarded  without  permit 72 

"      sick,   not  to  be  brought  in 124 

"      slaughter   of    82 

Tallow  not  to  be  brought  into  the  city  to  be  rendered 95 

"        rendering  of  95 

"        only  fresh,   to  be  rendered 96 

boiling    91,     95 

"  "       to   be   in  steam-tight  vessels 95 

"  "       odors   in,    to   be    destroyed 95 

"  "       to   be  inoffensive 95 

Tanks,   certain  connections  not  to  be  made 34 

Tanning   establishments    88 

Tap,  faucet,   tank  or  fountain  51 

Tar  manufactory   94 

Temperature   of  manufactories 22 

"    certain  public  places   25 

"Tenant,"     meaning     of 1 

Tenant  and  owner,   liability  of 13 

'  'Tenement-house, ' '   meaning  of   3 

houses  .- 19,     20 

' '       not   to   be   overcrowded ly 

• '       ventilation,    etc. ,    of 17 

"       water-closets  for   20 

"       walls  and  ceilings  lo  be  whitewashed 23 

Tenement-house  not  to  have  smoke-house 16 

"Theatres,"    meaning   of 4 

Tombs  used  only   by  permit 168 

"        persons   in    charge   of,    to  register 169 

Traps,    location    of 35 

materials  and  connections  not  to  be  made  or  used 29 

Trap  pipe  not  to  be  used  as  a  soil  or  drain  pipe 33 

Tuberculin   test    for    milch    cows 124 

Tuberculosis    to    be    reported 133,  138 

Tubs   in   privies 106 

construction     of 106 

'  •     stationary,   to  have  proper  traps 33 

Turpentine  manufactory    94 

Typhoid    fever      133 

Typhus  "  133 


lOS  IXDEX   TO   THE    SANITARY   CODE. 

Sections 

Undertakers   to    register 169 

to  report  contagious  diseases 141 

duties  in  case  of  contagious  disease 141 

Unwholesome   articles  not  to   be  brought  to   market 47 

Urinals  not  to  be  trapped 33 

Urine  not  to  escape  into  the  street 94 

Vacant  lots  to  be  kept  clean  and  fenced,  etc 116 

Vaccination    147 

Varicella,    contagious   disease 133 

Varnish   factories    94 

Vats    107 

Vaults  not  to  be   emptied,   except  by  permit 122 

"       construction   of    37 

"      not  to  be  offensive   104,  107 

"       contents    of    104,  106,  107,  122 

to   be   disinfected 122 

contents  of,   not  to  be  thrown  into  sewers,   streets,   rivers, 

etc.    106 

"         contents  of,  to  be  not  less  than  two  feet  from  top 104 

turning  and  stirring  contents  of Ill 

not  to  be  filled  with  dirt  till  emptied 104 

' '        care   in   transporting  contents   of 120 

ashes,   offal,   etc.,  not  to  be  put  In 105 

prices    for    cleaning 122 

for   burial    168 

persons  in  charge   of,   to  register •..   169 

"Vegetables,"     meaning    of 6 

Vegetables,   not  sound  and  fresh 42,     58 

"  decayed  and  unwholesome,   not  to  be  kept  or  brought 

into  city,  or  offered  for  sale  therein 42 

' '  false  label   or  statement  as  to 48 

' '  unsound,    mode   of   dealing   with 58 

"  to  be  kept  in  wholesome  place 49 

Vegetable  matter,   putrid,  not  to  be  thrown  into  the  streets,   etc..  103 

Vent  pipes,    length,    diameter,    etc 30 

not   to   be   used    29 

Ventilating    of   waste   pipes 36 

Ventilation    16,     25 

"            sewers,    traps,     drains,    soil    and    waste    pipes — mate- 
rials and  connections  not  to  be  used  or  made 29 

Vesbels,   removals  from  and  unloading  of 152 

reports  of  officers,    owners,    and  consignees  of 149.   150 


INDEX   TO   THE    SANITARY    CODi:.  109 

Sections 

Vessels,   physicians  on,   to  report 151 

removal   of  sick  from 154,  156 

from   quarantine    153,  155 

nothing  to   be   cast   from 157 

not  to   unload   skins,    rags,   hides,    etc.,   without  permit...  152 

"  not  to  go  to  offal  docks 115 

Veterinary  surgeons    i 127 

"           certificate    for   milch    cows 124 

Wash  trays,  to  be  trapped ,'^3 

Waste-pipe   ventilation 36 

Waste  pipes,   construction  and  connections .30,  '•>! 

materials  and  connections  not  to  be  used  or  made...  29 

length,    diameter,    etc 30 

in  relation  to  joints,   connections,  size,   etc 31,  32 

not  to  be  used  for  a  vent  or  soil  pipe 33 

ventilation    of 36 

Water  from  buildings  not  to  pass  on  to  walk 40 

"       reservoirs,  pipes,   etc.,  for,  to  be  kept  pure 61 

"       for   human   consumption 62,    63,  6i 

' '       from   wells,    permit 63 

"       to   flush   sewers 28 

offensive 88 

"       drinking    ". 63 

well     63 

Water-closets    33 

"      pipes  not  to  be  connected  with  bath  pipes 33 

not   to    be   offensive 104,  107 

"to   be  provided  in   certain   houses 20 

"      gases    from 2 J 

"      to  be  trapped 33 

Waters,  mineral,   etc.,   filing  name  of,    etc 59 

Whitewashing  walls  and  ceilings 23 

Yarding  cattle,  sheep,  horses,  etc '  72 

Yards  of  slaughter  houses  to  be  cemented,    etc 85 

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